1 Kings 15:23

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Cities which he built See 2 Chronicles 14:6-7.

Diseased in his feet The disease is supposed by most interpreters to have been the gout. 2 Chronicles adds, (2 Chronicles 16:12,) that “in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.” From the fact that the writer of Chronicles mentions the sins of Asa, which are passed over in silence by the writer of Kings, Wordsworth argues against the assumption of some, that the writer of Chronicles was partial to the house of David, and sought to cover up their faults. Chronicles makes no mention of Solomon’s apostasy, and Kings says nothing of Asa’s sins. Thus one of these sacred historians supplies the omissions of the other, and yet both together do not assume to give an exhaustive history of the subjects they take in hand. Large portions of their narrative are professedly excerpts from the public annals.