In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great; yet in his disease he didn’t seek the LORD, but just the physicians.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 12. Most, and so forth Hebrew “till his disease got upwards,” ( Calmet.) to the head ( Tirinus.) and heart, ( Bible.) when the gout generally proves fatal. A. Lapide—Septuagint “till he was very ill:” ( Bible.) a just punishment for his having confined the prophet in fetters; but of a temporal nature, as he sinned through passion, and died penitent, his heart being perfect (Calmet. 15:17) all or the most part of his days, particularly in the last. Worthington.—Rather. Hebrew and Septuagint simply, “physicians.” Bible.—Yet it was not the having recourse to them, with some degree of confidence, that is here reprehended, but the placing too much trust in men, ( Calmet.) and too little in God, the sovereign arbiter of life and death. Bible.