2 Chronicles 16:12

sought not. Contrast Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:2.Isaiah 38:2; Isaiah 38:3.)

physicians. healers. First occurrence of mention of them among the Hebrews. These belonged to the priestly tribe, with traditional knowledge, more or less superstitious. Compare Job 13:4. In NT. we have Luke (Colossians 4:14).

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¹² 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.

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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