King Asa Foot Disease
King asa foot disease. Deuteronomy 245 and King Asas Foot Disease in 1 Kings 1523b JEREMY SCHIPPER schippertempleedu Temple University Philadelphia PA 19122 1 Kings 1522-24 provides one of the few notations of royalty with a disease in the books of Kings. This should have driven Asa to repentance but to show that afflictions by themselves will not set a man right Asa had fallen into such an unbelieving spirit that instead of sending to God for help and crying for relief to him who sent the disease he sent for the physicians. I assert that King Asa died from end-stage renal disease due to hyperuricemia which caused the rapid deterioration to his kidneys and ultimately caused his death.
He was a good king in the beginning but he degenerated into a bad king 2 Chr 161-14. Yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord but sought help from physicians Something tragic had happened in Asas life. In his old age he was crippled by a foot disease.
There are two possibilities why Asas feet became diseased in his old age. This summary of Asas reign shows several classic indicators of Deuteromonistic Dtr redaction. But even then he did not turn to the LORD for help but to doctors.
It was out of natural cause. These include references to a source to the kings death and burial and to the name of his successor. Is the writer saying that it was wrong to seek help from doctors.
Yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD but sought help from physicians 2 Chronicles 1612 To some this analysis may seem a little harsh. Asa had totally changed. In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet and his disease became severe.
King Asa died of natural causes and was buried in the royal tombs in Jerusalem and his son Jehoshaphat succeeded him as king. However when Zerah the Cushite came to fight him King Asa called to the Lord his God and God struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. Asa Never Repents.
And Asa in the thirtie and ninth yeere of his reigne was diseased in his feete vntill his disease was exceeding great. Furthermore Asa oppressed some of Gods people.
These include references to a source to the kings death and burial and to the name of his successor.
There are two possibilities why Asas feet became diseased in his old age. King Asa had an army of over five hundred thousand fighting men. However when Zerah the Cushite came to fight him King Asa called to the Lord his God and God struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah. GODS WORD Translation In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa got a foot disease that became progressively worse. In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet and his disease became severe. He was a good king in the beginning but he degenerated into a bad king 2 Chr 161-14. It was out of natural cause. It is very likely that King Asa suffered from chronic Tophaceous gout. These include references to a source to the kings death and burial and to the name of his successor.
It was out of natural cause. But even then he did not turn to the LORD for help but to doctors. Sore feet can be awfully painful. 22 Then King Asa made a proclamation to all Judah none was exempt. Furthermore Asa oppressed some of Gods people. Yet in his disease hee sought not to the Lord but to the Physicians. And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet and his malady was severe.
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