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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:7-14

Here is, I. A plain and faithful reproof given to Asa by a prophet of the Lord, for making this league with Baasha. The reprover was Hanani the seer, the father of Jehu, another prophet, whom we read of 1 Kgs. 16:1; 2 Chron. 19:2. We observed several things amiss in Asa's treaty with Benhadad. But that which the prophet here charges upon him as the greatest fault he was guilty of in that matter is his relying on the king of Syria and not on the Lord his God, 2 Chron. 16:7. He thought that,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:12

And Asa in the thirty ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet ,.... This was about two years before his death, and his disease is generally thought to be the gout in his feet, and a just retaliation for putting the prophet's feet into the stocks: until his disease was exceeding great ; it increased upon him, and became very severe and intolerable, and the fits were frequent, as well as the pain sharper; though the sense of the Hebrew F13 עד למעלה "usque ad supra",... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:12

Diseased in his feet - He had a strong and long fit of the gout; this is most likely. He sought not to the Lord - "He did not seek discipline from the face of the Lord, but from the physicians." - Targum. Are we not taught by this to make prayer and supplication to the Lord in our afflictions, with the expectation that he will heal us when he finds us duly humbled, i.e., when the end is answered for which he sends the affliction? read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:1-14

The disappointing relapse of what had seemed tried worth, knowledge, and proved goodness. Mournful to the last degree is the impression made on us by what we are given to learn last of the career of King Asa. It is a reversal—not the reversal from bad to good, but of what seemed good and seemed sure, to bad. The humiliating lesson and fresh illustration of human caprice and weakness must be in like spirit and with proportionate humility noted and learned by ourselves. It is, indeed, a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:10-14

Lessons from last years. We could well wish the account of the last days of Asa to have been different from what it is. Sombre clouds, casting a chill shadow, gathered in the evening sky. Not that there was actual defection, but there was an amount of infirmity that detracts from the honour which his earlier years had laid up for him. We cannot help feeling— I. THAT AGE IS NOT ALWAYS AS VENERABLE AS IT SHOULD BE ; not even a "good old age;" not even Christian old... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:11-14

The career of Asa. I. HIS LIFE . 1 . The length of his reign. Forty-one years. His father, whose " heart was not perfect" towards God ( 1 Kings 15:3 ), reigned only three years ( 2 Chronicles 13:3 ). The Old Testament promised long life as a reward to piety ( Psalms 34:12-14 ). But, even without a special promise, a religious life is calculated to prolong days. "Fear God, and keep his commandments," is the first rule of health. 2 . The incidents of his reign. 3... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 16:12

His disease was exceeding great Perhaps a somewhat more literal rendering will more correctly express the emphasis of the original, e.g. his disease was great even to excess . For yet, read emphatically, and also ; the historian purposing to say that as, in his fear of Baasha, he had not sought the Lord, but Benhadad, so, in his excessive illness also, he had not sought the Lord, but the physicians! read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Chronicles 16:12

Yet in his disease he sought not ... - Rather, “and also in his disease he sought not.” Not only in his war with Baasha, but also when attacked by illness, Asa placed undue reliance upon the aid of man. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Chronicles 16:12

2 Chronicles 16:12. Asa was diseased in his feet Afflicted with the gout in a high degree. “He put the prophet in the stocks,” says Henry, “and now God put him in the stocks; so his punishment answered his sin.” Until his disease was exceeding great עד למעלה חליו , ad lemaalah chaljo, until his disease came to the height, or, until it ascended, namely, to his stomach, or head: and then it became mortal. Yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians He did not... read more

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