2 Chronicles 16:12

And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great; yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

In Context

11And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

13And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

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Cross References

1 Chronicles 10:14and inquired not of the LORD; therefore He slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his distress did he act even more treacherously against the LORD, this same king Ahaz.

Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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 →

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