2 Chronicles 16:12
And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his malchut (reign) became diseased in his raglayim, until his disease was exceedingly great. Yet even in his disease he sought not Hashem, but only the rofe'im.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
13And Asa slept with his Avotav, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 10:14And inquired not of Hashem; therefore He slaughtered him, and turned over the kingdom unto Dovid Ben Yishai.
2 Chronicles 28:22And in the time of his distress he did act even more unfaithfully against Hashem. This is that Melech Achaz.
Jeremiah 8:22Is there no tzori (medicinal balsam or balm) in Gil'ad; 1 is there no rofeh (physician) there? 1 Why then is the health 1 of the Bat Ami not recovered? 1
Matthew 7:2For with what gezar din (verdict) you judge, you will be judged, and with what measure you measure, it will be measured to you.
Mark 2:17And having heard this, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Itʼs not the strong ones that have need of a rofeh (physician) but rather the cholim (sick persons). I did not come to call [the] tzaddikim (righteous ones) but the chote'im (sinners) [to teshuva].
Luke 6:37Judge not, lest you be judged. And do not condemn, and by no means may you be condemned. If you pardon with mechila (forgiveness), you will be pardoned with selicha (forgiveness).
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 →