26Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed his father Amaziah.H5971H3063H3947H5818H8337H6240H8141H1121H4427H1H5582He rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his ancestors.H1129H359H7725H3063H310H4428H7901H13Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.H8337H6240H8141H1121H5818H4427H4427H2572H8147H8141H3389H517H8034H3203H33894He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.H6213H3477H5869H3068H1H558H62135He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.H1875H430H3117H2148H995H7200H430H3117H1875H3068H430H67436He went out and made war against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.H3318H3898H6430H6555H2346H1661H2346H2996H2346H795H1129H5892H795H64307God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.H430H5826H6430H6163H3427H1485H45868The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.H5984H5414H4503H5818H8034H3212H935H4714H2388H46059Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the Angle, and fortified them.H5818H1129H4026H3389H6438H8179H1516H8179H4740H238810He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had large herds, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.H1129H4026H4057H2672H7227H953H7227H4735H8219H4334H406H3755H2022H3760H157H12711Moreover Uzziah had an army of soldiers, fit for war, in divisions according to the numbers in the muster made by the secretary Jeiel and the officer Maaseiah, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king's commanders.H5818H2428H4421H6213H3318H6635H1416H4557H6486H3027H3273H5608H4641H7860H3027H2608H4428H826912The whole number of the heads of ancestral houses of mighty warriors was two thousand six hundred.H4557H7218H1H1368H2428H505H8337H396713Under their command was an army of three hundred seven thousand five hundred, who could make war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.H3027H2428H6635H7969H3967H505H7651H505H2568H3967H6213H4421H2428H3581H5826H4428H34114Uzziah provided for all the army the shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.H5818H3559H6635H4043H7420H3553H8302H7198H7050H6815In Jerusalem he set up machines, invented by skilled workers, on the towers and the corners for shooting arrows and large stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped until he became strong.H6213H3389H2810H4284H2803H4026H6438H3384H2671H1419H68H8034H3318H7350H6381H5826H3588H238816But when he had become strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to make offering on the altar of incense.H2393H3820H1361H7843H4603H3068H430H935H1964H3068H6999H4196H700417But the priest Azariah went in after him, with eighty priests of the LORD who were men of valor;H5838H3548H935H310H8084H3548H3068H2428H112118they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to make offering to the LORD, but for the priests the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to make offering. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the LORD God."H5975H5818H4428H559H5818H6999H3068H3548H1121H175H6942H6999H3318H4720H4603H3519H3068H43019Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to make offering, and when he became angry with the priests a leprous disease broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the LORD, by the altar of incense.H5818H2196H4730H3027H6999H2196H3548H6883H2224H4696H6440H3548H1004H3068H7004H419620When the chief priest Azariah, and all the priests, looked at him, he was leprous in his forehead. They hurried him out, and he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had struck him.H5838H7218H3548H3548H6437H6879H4696H926H1765H3318H3068H506021King Uzziah was leprous to the day of his death, and being leprous lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace of the king, governing the people of the land.H5818H4428H6879H3117H4194H3427H2669H2669H1004H6879H1504H1004H3068H3147H1121H4428H1004H8199H5971H77622Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz wrote.H3499H1697H5818H7223H314H3470H5030H1121H531H378923Uzziah slept with his ancestors; they buried him near his ancestors in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, "He is leprous." His son Jotham succeeded him.H5818H7901H1H6912H1H7704H6900H4428H559H6879H3147H1121H4427
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