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2 Chronicles 16:7–14, “And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not relied on the LORD thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand. For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.”
Asa had behaved foolishly, earlier in his reign he faced huge armies and cried to the Lord and the Lord delivered him from those armies by giving him a great victory. Hanani, one of the Lord’s prophets, brought the Lord’s message to Asa and reprimand him for not trusting the Lord. Perhaps Asa was feeling guilty, he became very angry and put Hanani in prison for bringing him a message he didn’t like. Asa even dealt badly with his own people. The Lord told Asa that he could expect war against these enemies instead of the Lord’s protection. After all, Asa showed the Syrians how much wealth was hidden away in his city and invited them to come and take it. Asa had a serious disease in his feet but he still didn’t pray to the Lord. Eventually, Asa died in the forty-first year of his reign.
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