2 Chronicles 16:12

And Asa was diseased in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, until he was very ill: but in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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, the first and the last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

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

Read all of 2 Chronicles 16

Cross References

1 Chronicles 10:14and he sought not the Lord: so he slew him, and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.

2 Chronicles 28:22but only troubled him in his affliction: and he departed yet more from the Lord, and King Ahaz said,

Jeremiah 8:22And is there no balm in Gilead, or is there no physician there? why has not the healing of the daughter of my people taken place?

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Chronicles 16:12