2 Chronicles 16:13 (GNV)

Passage

So Asa slept with his fathers, and dyed in the one and fourtieth yeere of his reigne.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 16:11 And behold, the actes of Asa first and last, loe, they are written in the booke of the Kings of Iudah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 16:12 And Asa in the nine and thirtieth yeere of his reigne was diseased in his feete, and his disease was extreme: yet he sought not the Lord in his disease, but to the Phisicions.

2 Chronicles 16:13 So Asa slept with his fathers, and dyed in the one and fourtieth yeere of his reigne.

2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buryed him in one of his sepulchres, which he had made for him selfe in the citie of Dauid, and layed him in the bed, which they had filled with sweete odours and diuers kindes of spices made by the arte of the apoticarie: and they burnt odours for him with an exceeding great fire.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "slept", "fathers", "dyed", "fourtieth", "yeere", and "reigne". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "slept" and "fathers", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 12's "And Asa in the nine and thirtieth..." into verse 14's "And they buryed him in one of...", so "slept" and "fathers" 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 "slept" and "fathers" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.