II Chronicles Chapter 26

II Chronicles Chapter 26
1 Then all the people of Judah took
Uzziah, which was sixteen year old, and
made him king in the stead of his father
Amaziah.
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah
after that the king slept with his fathers.
3 Sixteen year old was Uzziah, when he
began to reign, and he reigned two and
fifty year in Jerusalem, and his mother's
name was Jechiliah of Jerusalem. 4 And
he did uprightly in the sight of the Lord,
according to all that his father Amaziah
did.
5 And he sought God in the days of
Zechariah (which understood the visions
of God) and when as he sought the Lord,
God made him to prosper. 6 For he went
forth and fought against the Philistines
and break down the wall of Gath, and
the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of
Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod, and
among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the
Philistines, and against the Arabians that
dwelt in Gur-baal and Hammeunim.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to
Uzziah, and his name spread to the
entering in of Egypt: for he did most
valiantly.
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in
Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the
valley gate, and at the turning, and made
them strong.
10 And he built towers in the
wilderness, and digged many cisterns:
for he had much cattle both in the valleys
and plains, plowmen, and dressers of
vines in the mountains, and in Carmel:
for he loved husbandry.
11 Uzziah had also an host of fighting
men that went out to war by bands,
according to the count of their number
under the hand of Jeiel the scribe, and
Maaseiah the ruler, and under the hand
of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the
families of the valiant men were two
thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand was the army
for war, three hundred and seven
thousand, and five hundred that fought
valiantly to help the king against the
enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared them throughout
all the host, shields, and spears, and
helmets, and brigandines, and bows, and
stones to sling.
15 He made also very artificial engines
in Jerusalem, to be upon the towers and
upon the corners, to shoot arrows and
great stones: and his name spread far
abroad, because God did help him
marvelously, till he was mighty. 16 But
when he was strong, his heart was lift 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, valiant men.
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king,
and said unto him, It pertaineth not to
thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the
Lord, but to the priests the sons of
Aaron, that are consecrated for to offer
incense: go forth of the sanctuary: for
thou hast transgressed, and thou shalt
have none honor of the Lord God. 19
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had incense
in his hand to burn it: and while he was
wroth with the priests, the leprosy rose
up in his forehead before the priests in
the house of the Lord beside the incense
altar.
20 And when Azariah the chief priest
with all the priests looked upon him,
behold, he was leprous in his forehead,
and they caused him hastily to depart
thence: and he was even compelled 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 as a leper
in an house apart, because he was cut off
from the house of the Lord: and Jotham
his son ruled over the king's house, and
judged the people of the land.
22 Concerning 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 pertained to the
kings: for they said, He is a leper. And
Jotham his son reigned in his stead.