2 Chronicles 16:13 Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his ancestors.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Then in the forty-first year of his reign Asa died and rested with his ancestors.

English Standard Version
And Asa slept with his fathers, dying in the forty-first year of his reign.

New American Standard Bible
So Asa slept with his fathers, having died in the forty-first year of his reign.

King James Bible
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Asa died in the forty-first year of his reign and rested with his fathers.

International Standard Version
As a result, in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died, as had his ancestors,

American Standard Version
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he slept with his fathers: and he died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

Darby Bible Translation
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one-and-fortieth year of his reign.

Young's Literal Translation
And Asa lieth with his fathers, and dieth in the forty and first year of his reign,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

16:1-14 Asa seeks the aid of the Syrians, His death. - A plain and faithful reproof was given to Asa by a prophet of the Lord, for making a league with Syria. God is displeased when he is distrusted, and when an arm of flesh is relied on, more than his power and goodness. It is foolish to lean on a broken reed, when we have the Rock of ages to rely upon. To convince Asa of his folly, the prophet shows that he, of all men, had no reason to distrust God, who had found him such a powerful Helper. The many experiences we have had of the goodness of God to us, aggravate our distrust of him. But see how deceitful our hearts are! we trust in God when we have nothing else to trust to, when need drives us to him; but when we have other things to stay on, we are apt to depend too much on them. Observe Asa's displeasure at this reproof. What is man, when God leaves him to himself! He that abused his power for persecuting God's prophet, was left to himself, to abuse it further for crushing his own subjects. Two years before he died, Asa was diseased in his feet. Making use of physicians was his duty; but trusting to them, and expecting that from them which was to be had from God only, were his sin and folly. In all conflicts and sufferings we need especially to look to our own hearts, that they may be perfect towards God, by faith, patience, and obedience.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. Asa … was diseased in his feet—probably the gout.

yet his disease was exceeding great—better, "moved upwards" in his body, which proves the violent and dangerous type of the malady.

yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians—most probably Egyptian physicians, who were anciently in high repute at foreign courts, and who pretended to expel diseases by charms, incantations, and mystic arts. Asa's fault consisted in his trusting to such physicians, while he neglected to supplicate the aid and blessing of God. The best and holiest men have been betrayed for a time into sins, but through repentance have risen again; and as Asa is pronounced a good man (2Ch 15:17), it may be presumed that he also was restored to a better state of mind.