2 Chronicles 21:14

Behold, with a great plague will the Lord smite thy people. — Literally, Behold, Jehovah is about to smite a great smiting in thy people and in thy sons. The immediate object of the verb is not expressed. (Comp. 2 Chronicles 21:18.) It was Jehoram himself who was smitten in his people, and in his sons, and in his wives, and in all his goods, as 2 Chronicles 21:17 shows. The “smiting “ — i.e., heaven-sent stroke, or Divine visitation — consisted in an invasion of Philistines and Arabs, who sacked Jerusalem and the royal palace.