Asa: Physician, son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam, was the third king
of Judah. He was zealous in maintaining the true worship of God, and
in rooting all idolatry, with its accompanying immoralities, out of
the land
(1 Kings 15:8-14) The Lord gave him and his land rest and
prosperity. It is recorded of him, however, that in his old age, when
afflicted, he "sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians" (comp.)
(Jeremiah 17:5) He died in the forty-first year of his reign, greatly
honoured by his people
(2 Chronicles 16:1-13) and was succeeded by his son
Jehoshaphat.
