John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 21:19

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of two years, etc.] So long he was afflicted and tortured with the above disease: his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness; either in like manner as Judas’s did, (<440118>Acts 1:18) or as in the manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the seat of the vault f78; or perhaps only what was contained in the bowels is meant, if it was the colic: so he died of sore diseases; he seems to have had a complication of them, and these very painful and distressing: and the people made no burning for him, like the burnings of his fathers; as they did for his grandfather Asa, (<141614>2 Chronicles 16:14), they did not burn spices or odoriferous wood, as the Targum; though his body, because of the stench of it, needed it, as Jarchi observes.

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