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2 Chronicles 26

About 2 Chronicles 2 Chronicles retells the history of Judah's kings from Solomon to the exile, with a focus on the temple.

Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.Selected2 Chronicles 26:1Ask

He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.Selected2 Chronicles 26:2Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:3Ask

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.Selected2 Chronicles 26:4Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:5Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:6Ask

And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.Selected2 Chronicles 26:7Ask

And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.Selected2 Chronicles 26:8Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:9Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:10Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:11Ask

The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.Selected2 Chronicles 26:12Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:13Ask

And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.Selected2 Chronicles 26:14Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:15Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:16Ask

And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:Selected2 Chronicles 26:17Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:18Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:19Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:20Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:21Ask

Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.Selected2 Chronicles 26:22Ask

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.Selected2 Chronicles 26:23Ask

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