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Chapter 26 |
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Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and
made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. |
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2 | He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that
the king slept with his fathers. |
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| 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. |
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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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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 valor 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. |
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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 marvelously 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 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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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. |
