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1 Kings 15:23

1 Kings 15:23

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

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?.... Some of which are to be met with in the canonical book of that name, 2Ch 14:1, and others in the annals of the kings, out of which the Scripture account was taken:nevertheless, in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet; seized with the gout, as the Jews say , and which was two years before his death, see 2Ch 16:12.

T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 48. 2. So Clemens of Alexandria, Stromat. l. 1. p.

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