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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.
02 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah,
after that the king slept with his fathers.
03 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.
04 And he did that which was right in the sight
of the Lord, according to all that his father
Amaziah did.
05 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.
06 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.
07 And God helped him against the Philistines,
and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal,
and the Mehunims.
08 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and
his name spread abroad even to the entering in of
Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
09 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.
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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 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.
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