2 Chronicles 16:12 (YLT)

Passage

And Asa is diseased--in the thirty and ninth year of his reign--in his feet, till his disease is excessive, and also in his disease he hath not sought Jehovah, but among physicians.

Nearby Context

2 Chronicles 16:10 And Asa is angry at the seer, and giveth him to the house of torture, for <FI>he is<Fi> in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresseth <FI>some<Fi> of the people at that time.

2 Chronicles 16:11 And lo, the matters of Asa, the first and the last, lo, they are written on the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chronicles 16:12 And Asa is diseased--in the thirty and ninth year of his reign--in his feet, till his disease is excessive, and also in his disease he hath not sought Jehovah, but among physicians.

2 Chronicles 16:13 And Asa lieth with his fathers, and dieth in the forty and first year of his reign,

2 Chronicles 16:14 and they bury him in <FI>one of<Fi> his graves, that he had prepared for himself in the city of David, and they cause him to lie on a bed that <FI>one<Fi> hath filled <FI>with<Fi> spices, and divers kinds of mixtures, with perfumed work; and they burn for him a burning--very great.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 11's "And lo the matters of Asa the..." into verse 13's "And Asa lieth with his fathers and...", so "diseased--in" and "thirty" 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 "diseased--in" and "thirty" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.