2 Chronicles 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.
- 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.
|
|