10 Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison[a] because of his anger over this. And Asa mistreated some of the people at that time.

Asa’s Death

11 Note that the events(A) of Asa’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord but only the physicians.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 16:10 Lit the house of stocks

10 Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison.(A) At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.

11 The events of Asa’s reign, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was afflicted(B) with a disease in his feet. Though his disease was severe, even in his illness he did not seek(C) help from the Lord,(D) but only from the physicians.

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