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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.
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to
Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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.
4 And he did that which was right
in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
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.
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.
7 And God helped him against the
Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.
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.
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.
10 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 vine dressers in the mountains, and in
Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
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.
12 The whole number of the chief of the
fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
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.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout
all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and
slings to cast stones.
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 withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was
marvellously helped, till he was strong.
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.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after
him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and
said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, 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 thou hast trespassed; neither shall
it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
19 Then Uzziah 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.
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.
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.
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah,
first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
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 stead.
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