To no one's regret

2 Chronicles 21:18-20 - After all this, the LORD afflicted Jehoram with an incurable disease of the bowels. In the course of time, at the end of the second year, his bowels came out because of the disease, and he died in great pain. His people made no fire in his honor, as they had for his fathers.

Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He passed away, to no one's regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

How gruesome and sad! An extremely painful and unusual death. No one cared. A king, but not treated as one even in death.

I wonder what doctors today would have diagnosed this disease as. I wonder how hard they worked at finding a cure...after all, no one cared. I wonder if there is a cure for this disease today. Notice that the doctors of the day must have been able to cure some diseases, otherwise it doesn't make sense to point this one out as incurable.