J.
The reign of Uzziah
26:1-23
2 Chron. 26
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26:1
And all the people of Judah took
1aUzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
2 Chron. 26
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26:2
It was he who built Eloth and restored it to Judah after
Amaziah the king slept with his fathers.
2 Chron. 26
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26:3
aUzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Jechiliah, from Jerusalem.
2 Chron. 26
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26:4
And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.
2 Chron. 26
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26:5
And he set himself to seek after God during the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought after Jehovah, God caused him to prosper.
2 Chron. 26
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26:6
And he went out and waged war against the Philistines. And he broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in
the vicinity of Ashdod and among the Philistines.
2 Chron. 26
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26:7
And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur-baal and
against the Meunim.
2 Chron. 26
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26:8
And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah; and his fame went as far as the entrance of Egypt, for he became exceedingly strong.
2 Chron. 26
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26:9
And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate and at the Valley Gate and at the Angle, and he fortified them.
2 Chron. 26
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26:10
And he built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle, both in the lowlands and in the plain;
he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fruitful fields, for he loved the soil.
2 Chron. 26
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26:11
Furthermore Uzziah had an army of soldiers that went out to war in companies according to the number of their muster done by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
2 Chron. 26
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26:12
The whole number of heads of fathers’
houses, of mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred.
2 Chron. 26
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26:13
And under their hand was an army force of three hundred seven thousand five hundred who could make war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy.
2 Chron. 26
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26:14
And Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields and spears and helmets and body armor and bows and sling stones.
2 Chron. 26
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26:15
And in Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and at the corners for shooting with arrows and great stones. And his fame went out far abroad, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong.
2 Chron. 26
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26:16
But when he had become
astrong, his heart became
buplifted, to
his own destruction. And he trespassed against Jehovah his God and
cwent into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the incense
daltar.
2 Chron. 26
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26:17
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with
1Azariah were eighty priests of Jehovah who were valiant men.
2 Chron. 26
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26:18
And they withstood Uzziah the king and said to him, It does not belong to you, Uzziah, to burn
aincense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed and there will be no honor for you from Jehovah God.
2 Chron. 26
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26:19
Then Uzziah became angry, and in his hand was a censer for burning incense. And when he became angry with the priests,
aleprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah beside the incense altar.
2 Chron. 26
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26:20
And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and there he was, leprous on his forehead; and they rushed him out of there, and he himself also hurried out to go out, for
aJehovah had stricken him.
2 Chron. 26
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26:21
So Uzziah the king was a leper until the day of his death; and he dwelt in a
aseparate house as a
bleper, for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah. And Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
2 Chron. 26
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26:22
And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote down the rest of the acts of
aUzziah, the first and the last.
K.
The reign of Jotham
26:23—27:9
2 Chron. 26
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26:23
And Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the burial field which belonged to the kings, for they said, He is a leper. And Jotham his son reigned in his place.
