2 Chronicles 16:12
In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.
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11Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
13So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 10:14And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.
2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
Matthew 7:2For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.
Mark 2:17And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.
Luke 6:37Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 16:8-14
Asa's Death and Burial. ( b. c. 914.) 7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the Lord thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. 8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord , he delivered them into thine hand. 9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show… Read the whole commentary →