1 Kings 15:23

And the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might [see 2 Chronicles 14:1-15 ; 2 Chronicles 15:1-19 .] , and all that he did, and the cities which he built [during the peace in the earlier part of his reign ( 2 Chronicles 14:5 , 2 Chronicles 14:6 )], are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless [Heb. only . There was one exception to his otherwise happy and prosperous reign] in the time of his old age [see notes on 1 Kings 1:1 ; 1 Kings 11:4 . "Old age" means here, as them, the end of life. Asa cannot well have been more than fifty. It was in the 39th year of his reign ( 2 Chronicles 16:12 ) that this disease attacked him] he was diseased in his feet. [It is generally supposed that this disease was the gout. In the Chronicles ( l.c. ) he is reproached for seeking "not to the Lord but to the physicians." We must remember what the art of medicine at that day was like, and that the Jews regarded sickness and healing as alike the immediate acts of God.