And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet, and his disease became severe; yet even in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but sought physicians — In his 39th year (בִּשְׁנַת־שְׁלוֹשִׁים וְתֵשַׁע לִמְלוּכְתּוֹ), Asa developed foot disease (חָלָה אָסָא בְרַגְלָיו). Rather than seek God (לֹא־דָרַשׁ אֶת־יְהוָה), he 'sought physicians' (וַיִּדְרֹשׁ לָרֹפְאִים). The contrast: earlier, Asa relied on God; now, even illness prompted reliance on human medicine, not divine healing.

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