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II CHRONICLES ยท Chapter 26
26:1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years
old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned
fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of
Jerusalem.
26:4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according
to all that his father Amaziah did.
26:5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding
in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him
to prosper.
26:6 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.
26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians
that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
26:8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad
even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate,
and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells: for he
had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen
also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved farming.
26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel
the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the
king's captains.
26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men
of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
26:13 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.
26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields,
and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
26:15 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
likewise. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped,
till he was strong.
26:16 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.
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore
priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertains
not unto you, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the LORD, but to the priests
the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the
sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honour
from the LORD God.
26:19 Then Uzziah was angry, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense:
and while he was angry 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.
26:20 And Azariah 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.
26:21 And Uzziah 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.
26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah
the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, 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 position.
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