Eyes of the LORD* are constantly moving all over the earth to see what He can do for each of His children. When Asa paid tribute to a king, the LORD* sent a prophet:
2 Chronicles 16:7. And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, Because you have relied on the king of Syria and not relied on the LORD* your God, therefore the army of the king of Syria has escaped out of your hand. 8. Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge army, with very many chariots and horsemen? Yet, because you relied on the LORD*, He delivered them into your hand. 9. For the eyes of the LORD* run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those who look toward Him with their whole heart. Here you have done foolishly, therefore from now on you will have wars. 10. Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in a prison house, for he was in a rage with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. 11. And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the Kings of Judah and Israel. 12. And Asa in the thirty-ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great, yet in his disease he did not seek the LORD*, but the physicians. 13. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the forty-first year of his reign. 14. And they buried him in his own sepulcher, which he had made for himself in the city of David and laid him in the bed, which was filled with sweet odors and different kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art and they made a very great burning (of the spices) for him.
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