After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord broke him.'' After all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease. What it was is not agreed upon; some take it be an "hernia", or rupture; others, the falling of the "anus", or a fistula in it; others, the colic, or iliac passion; but generally it is thought to be a dysentery, or bloody flux; the Targum is,"the Word of the Lord broke him.'' 2 Chronicles 21:19 ch2 21:19 ch2 21:19 ch2 21:19And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of two years,.... 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, Act 1:18 or as in the manner the bowels of Arius are said to do, while sitting on the seat of the vault (a); 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, Ch2 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. (a) Sozomen. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 29, 30.