Discovery Box2 Chronicles 16:12-14 
Context16:12 In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a foot disease. 1 Though his disease was severe, he did not seek the Lord, but only the doctors. 2 16:13 Asa passed away 3 in the forty-first year of his reign. 16:14 He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. 4 They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him. 5
1 tn Heb “became sick in his feet.”
2 tn Heb “unto upwards [i.e., very severe [was] his sickness, and even in his sickness he did not seek the
3 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers, and he died.”
4 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
5 tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”
