^{12 Ref} And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

^{13 Ref} But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

^{14 Ref} Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

^{15 Ref} And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.