Thematic Bible
2 Chronicles 26:1 (show verse)
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
2 Chronicles 26:2 (show verse)
He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2 Chronicles 26:3 (show verse)
Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 26:4 (show verse)
He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
2 Chronicles 26:5 (show verse)
He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
2 Chronicles 26:6 (show verse)
He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2 Chronicles 26:7 (show verse)
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
2 Chronicles 26:8 (show verse)
The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong.
2 Chronicles 26:9 (show verse)
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.
2 Chronicles 26:10 (show verse)
He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.
2 Chronicles 26:11 (show verse)
Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
2 Chronicles 26:12 (show verse)
The whole number of the heads of ancestral houses, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.
2 Chronicles 26:13 (show verse)
Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
2 Chronicles 26:14 (show verse)
Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
2 Chronicles 26:15 (show verse)
He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.
2 Chronicles 26:16 (show verse)
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against the LORD his God; for he went into the LORD's temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:17 (show verse)
Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the LORD, who were valiant men:
2 Chronicles 26:18 (show verse)
and they resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, "It isn't for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from the LORD God."
2 Chronicles 26:19 (show verse)
Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, beside the altar of incense.
2 Chronicles 26:20 (show verse)
Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because the LORD had struck him.
2 Chronicles 26:21 (show verse)
Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate 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.
2 Chronicles 26:22 (show verse)
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote.
2 Chronicles 26:23 (show verse)
So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, "He is a leper." Jotham his son reigned in his place.