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Chapter 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. |
| 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.
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| 7 | And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians
that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. |
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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. |
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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. |
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12 | 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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| 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. |
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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 marvelously
helped, till he was strong. |
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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. |
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| 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 honor 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. |
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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.
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| 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. |
