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2 Chronicles 16:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14And 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.
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Quick Meaning
This verse closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition: “And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Asa's diseased feet and honored burial close his reign.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 16:11–14
Read 2 Chronicles 16:14 with 16:11–14. The selected wording supplies one closing in the thought unit with its stated result or transition; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Asa develops a severe foot disease, seeks physicians without seeking the LORD, dies, and receives an elaborate burial.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Asa's diseased feet and honored burial close his reign,” 2 Chronicles 16:14 closes the thought unit with its stated result or transition through the wording “And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The ending joins a criticized response to illness with communal honor, resisting a flat verdict on the whole person. 2 Chronicles 16:7–10 has just established this prior movement: Hanani says Asa relied on Aram rather than God, recalls the earlier deliverance, announces wars, and is imprisoned as Asa crushes some of the people. Together those details explain why “Asa's diseased feet and honored burial close his reign” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 2 Chronicles 16:11–14 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 16:11–14 forms the complete movement “Asa's diseased feet and honored burial close his reign”: Asa develops a severe foot disease, seeks physicians without seeking the LORD, dies, and receives an elaborate burial.
Verse 11. 11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Verse 12. 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.
Verse 13. 13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
Verse 14. 14 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.
What Remains True
Reform, prayer, victory, and prosperity never remove the need to hear correction, protect dissenters, reject coercion, and respond responsibly to illness and failure. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Asa develops a severe foot disease, seeks physicians without seeking the LORD, dies, and receives an elaborate burial. In 2 Chronicles 16:14, the concrete line “And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of….” Test reform and success by truthfulness, noncoercion, protection of critics, and responsible care; do not turn victory, wealth, or illness into a formula about someone's faith. This response follows from the unit's own movement: Asa develops a severe foot disease, seeks physicians without seeking the LORD, dies, and receives an elaborate burial.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 16:11–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 16:11–14
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NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 16:11–14, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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