Asa Contracts Disease in His Feet
- Dates
- 872 BC
Asa, the 3rd king of Judah (southern kingdom) reigns 41 years and is a good king. In his later years he develops some sort of disease in his feet and he apparently lets his son Jehoshaphat act as coregent.
Bible passages
- 1 Kings 15:23
The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
Text of the King James Version.
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