2 Cronica 16:12

Filipino Cebuano Bible

12 Ug sa ikakatloan ug siyam ka tuig sa iyang paghari si Asa nasakit sa iyang tiil; ang iyang sakit daku kaayo: apan sa iyang pagkasakit siya wala mangita kang Jehova, kondili sa mga mananambal.

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am 3088, bc 916

diseased: Matthew 7:2, Luke 6:37, Luke 6:38, Revelation 3:19

in his disease: 2 Chronicles 16:9, 2 Chronicles 28:22, 1 Chronicles 10:14, Jeremiah 17:5

physicians: Genesis 50:2, Job 13:4, Jeremiah 8:22, Matthew 9:12, Mark 2:17, Mark 5:26, Colossians 4:14

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 15:23 - in the time Job 33:19 - pain Luke 8:43 - had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Asa in the thirty ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet,.... This was about two years before his death, and his disease is generally thought to be the gout in his feet, and a just retaliation for putting the prophet's feet into the stocks:

until his disease was exceeding great; it increased upon him, and became very severe and intolerable, and the fits were frequent, as well as the pain sharper; though the sense of the Hebrew m phrase may be, that his disease got upwards, into a superior part of his body, head, or stomach, which, when the gout does, it is dangerous. A very learned physician n is of opinion, that not the gout, but what he calls an "aedematous" swelling of the feet, is meant, which insensibly gets up into the bowels, and is successively attended with greater inconveniences; a tension of the abdomen, difficulty of breathing, very troublesome to the patient, and issues in a dropsy, and death itself:

yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord; his seeking to physicians for help in his disease, perhaps, would not have been observed to his reproach, had he also sought unto the Lord, whom he ought to have sought in the first place; and when he applied to the physicians, he should have implored the blessing of God on their prescriptions; but he so much forgot himself as to forget the Lord: this is the first time we read of physicians among the Jews, and some think these were Heathens, and a sort of enchanters: the Jews entertained a very ill opinion of physicians; the best of them, they say o, deserve hell, and they advise p men not to live in a city where the chief man is a physician; but the author of the book of Ecclesiasticus gives a great encomium of them, and exhorts to honour and esteem them,

"1 Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. 2 For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. 3 The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration. 4 The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. 5 Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? 6 And he hath given men skill, that he might be honoured in his marvellous works. 7 With such doth he heal [men], and taketh away their pains. 8 Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of his works there is no end; and from him is peace over all the earth,'' (Sirach 38)

Julian q the emperor greatly honoured them, and observes, that it is justly said by the philosophers, that the art of medicine fell from heaven.

m עד למעלה "usque ad supra", Montanus; "usque ad summum", Vatablus; "usque ad sursum", Piscator. n Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 645. o T. Bab. Kiddashin, fol. 32. 1. Gloss. in ib. p T. Bab. Pesachim, fol. 113. 1. q Opera, par. 2. p. 154.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yet in his disease he sought not ... - Rather, “and also in his disease he sought not.” Not only in his war with Baasha, but also when attacked by illness, Asa placed undue reliance upon the aid of man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 16:12. Diseased in his feet — He had a strong and long fit of the gout; this is most likely.

He sought not to the Lord — "He did not seek discipline from the face of the Lord, but from the physicians." - Targum.

Are we not taught by this to make prayer and supplication to the Lord in our afflictions, with the expectation that he will heal us when he finds us duly humbled, i.e., when the end is answered for which he sends the affliction?