2 Chronicles 16:13 (LSB)

Passage

So Asa slept with his fathers. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

Nearby Context

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 "slept", "fathers", "died", "forty-first", "year", and "reign". 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 became diseased in his feet..." into verse 14's "And they buried him in his own...", 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.