Lexicon :: Strong's H2483 - ḥŏlî

“The LORD will remove all sickness from you; he will not put on you all the terrible diseases of Egypt that you know about, but he will inflict them on all who hate you.

“he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

“The LORD will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.

After this, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill. His illness got worse until he stopped breathing.

Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upstairs room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers, instructing them, “Go inquire of Baal-zebub,[fn] the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”

So the king said to Hazael, “Take a gift with you and go meet the man of God. Inquire of the LORD through him, ‘Will I recover from this sickness? ’ ”

When Elisha became sick with the illness from which he died, King Jehoash of Israel went down and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots and horsemen of Israel! ”

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the LORD but only the physicians.

“You yourself will be struck with many illnesses, including a disease of the intestines, until your intestines come out day after day because of the disease.”

After all these things, the LORD afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease.

The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed;

you will heal him on the bed where he lies.

What is more, he eats in darkness all his days, with much frustration, sickness, and anger.

God gives a person riches, wealth, and honor so that he lacks nothing of all he desires for himself, but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a sickening tragedy.

Why do you want more beatings?

Why do you keep on rebelling?

The whole head is hurt,

and the whole heart is sick.

A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of suffering who knew what sickness was.

He was like someone people turned away from;[fn]

he was despised, and we didn’t value him.

As a well gushes out its water,

so she pours out her evil.[fn]

Violence and destruction resound in her.

Sickness and wounds keep coming to my attention.

Woe to me because of my brokenness —

I am severely wounded!

I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,

but I must bear it.”

When Ephraim saw his sickness

and Judah his wound,

Ephraim went to Assyria

and sent a delegation to the great king.[fn]

But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.