2 Chronicles 26
The Reign of
Uzziah |
2 Kgs. 15.1-7 |
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Then all the people of Judah took
Uzzi'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the
room of his father Amazi'ah.
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He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah,
after that the king slept with his fathers.
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Sixteen years old was Uzzi'ah when
he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name also was Jecoli'ah of Jerusalem.
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And he did that which was right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all that
his father Amazi'ah did.
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And he sought God in the days of
Zechari'ah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long
as he sought the LORD, God made him to
prosper.
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And he went forth and warred against
the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of
Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and
among the Philistines.
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And God helped him against the
Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-ba'al, and
the Me'hunim.
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And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzzi'ah:
and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt;
for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
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Moreover Uzzi'ah built towers in
Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the
turning of the wall, and fortified them.
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Also he built towers in the desert, and
digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country,
and in the plains; husbandmen also, and vinedressers in the
mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
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Moreover Uzzi'ah had a host of fighting
men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their
account by the hand of Je-i'el the scribe and Ma-asei'ah the ruler,
under the hand of Hanani'ah, one of the king's
captains.
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The whole number of the chief of the
fathers of the mighty men of valor were two thousand and six
hundred.
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And under their hand was an army,
three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that
made war with mighty power, to help the king against the
enemy.
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And Uzzi'ah prepared for them throughout
all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and
bows, and slings to cast stones.
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And he made in Jerusalem engines,
invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks,
to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far
abroad; for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.
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But when he was strong, his heart was
lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the
LORD his God, and went into the temple of the
LORD to burn incense upon the altar of
incense.
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And Azari'ah the priest went in after
him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
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and they withstood Uzzi'ah the king, and
said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzzi'ah, to
burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests
the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: Ex.
30.7, 8 · Num. 3.10 go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honor from the LORD God.
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Then Uzzi'ah was wroth, and had a
censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the
priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests
in the house of the LORD, from beside the
incense altar.
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And Azari'ah the chief priest, and all
the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in
his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself
hasted also to go out, because the LORD had
smitten him.
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And Uzzi'ah the king was a leper unto the
day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a
leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's
house, judging the people of the land.
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Now the rest of the acts of Uzzi'ah,
first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz,
write.
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So Uzzi'ah slept with his fathers, Is. 6.1 and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the
burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his
stead.
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