13And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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