2 Chronicles 16:12 (DBY)

Passage

And Asa in the thirty-ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was extremely great; yet in his disease he did not seek Jehovah, but the physicians.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 16:10 And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was enraged with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

2 Chronicles 16:11 And behold the acts of Asa, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 16:12 And Asa in the thirty-ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was extremely great; yet in his disease he did not seek Jehovah, but the physicians.

2 Chronicles 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one-and-fortieth year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thirty-ninth", "year", "reign", "diseased", "feet", "until", and "extremely". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thirty-ninth" and "year", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "And behold the acts of Asa first..." into verse 13's "And Asa slept with his fathers and...", so "thirty-ninth" and "year" belong inside that flow. In 2 Chronicles context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thirty-ninth" and "year" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.