| 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.
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| 26:2 |
He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that
the king slept with his fathers.
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| 26:3 |
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.
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| 26:4 |
And he did that which was right in the sight of the
LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
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| 26:5 |
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.
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| 26:6 |
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.
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| 26:7 |
And God helped him against the Philistines, and
against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the
Mehunims.
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| 26:8 |
And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name
spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he
strengthened himself exceedingly.
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| 26:9 |
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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| 26:10 |
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.
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| 26:11 |
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.
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| 26:12 |
The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the
mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
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| 26:13 |
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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| 26:14 |
And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host
shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and
bows, and slings to cast stones.
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| 26:15 |
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.
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| 26:16 |
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.
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| 26:17 |
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with
him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
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| 26:18 |
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.
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| 26:19 |
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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| 26:20 |
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.
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| 26:21 |
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.
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| 26:22 |
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last,
did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
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| 26:23 |
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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