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Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 23. Strength. Septuagint “dynasty,” or power, whether of his dominions or of his person. Calmet.—Feet, with the gout, ( Menochius.) three years before his death. He did not confide in the Lord sufficiently. 2 Chronicles 16:12. His body was embalmed or burnt, unless aromatic spices evaporated with it was laid on a bed of state, before it was consigned to the tomb, which Asa had prepared for himself in the city of David. Ibid.
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