Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
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Gill's Exposition
And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last,.... See Gill on Kg1 15:23.
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2 Chronicles 16:12
ch2 16:12
ch2 16:12
ch2 16:12And Asa in the thirty ninth year of his reign was diseased in his…
The rebuke of Hanani and his imprisonment by Asa, omitted by the writer of Kings, are among the most important of the additions to Asa’s history for which we are indebted to the author of Chronicles.…
Adam Clarke
Asa was wroth with the seer - Instead of humbling himself, and deprecating the displeasure of the Lord, he persecuted his messenger: and having thus laid his impious hands upon the prophet, he appears…
Here is, I. A plain and faithful reproof given to Asa by a prophet of the Lord, for making this league with Baasha. The reprover was Hanani the seer, the father of Jehu, another prophet, whom we read…
Cambridge Bible
in a prison house Render, in the stocks (lit. in the house of the stocks). Jer 20:2; Jer 29:26 (R.V.).
oppressed Lit. brake in pieces, an expression which when applied to things would mean, made spoil…
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