2 Chronicles 16:12 (LSB)

Passage

And Asa became diseased in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek Yahweh, but the physicians.

Nearby Context

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

2 Chronicles 16:11 Now behold, the acts of Asa from first to last, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 16:12 And Asa became diseased in his feet in the thirty-ninth year of his reign. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek Yahweh, but the physicians.

2 Chronicles 16:13 So Asa slept with his fathers. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "Now behold the acts of Asa from..." into verse 13's "So Asa slept with his fathers And...", so "became" and "diseased" 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 "became" and "diseased" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.