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12And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

2 Chronicles 16:12

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 7-14)

Here is, I. A plain and faithful reproof given to Asa by a prophet of the Lord, for making this league with Baasha. The reprover was Hanani the seer, the father of Jehu, another prophet, whom we read of 1 Kgs. 16:1 ; 2 Chron. 19:2 . We observed several things amiss in Asa’s treaty with Benhadad. But that which the prophet here charges upon him as the greatest fault he was guilty of in that matter ...

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