 1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, and he was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah's place. 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king lay with his fathers. 3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 4 He did the right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did. 5 He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God. As long as he sought the Lord, God blessed him. 6 He warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities around Ashdod, and among the Philistines. 7 God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gurbaal, and the Meunites. 8 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah. And his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt, for he was made very strong. 9 And, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner gate and at the Valley Gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them. 10 He built towers in the desert, and dug many wells. For he had many cattle, both in the low country and in the plains. He also had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel. For he loved the earth. 11 And, Uzziah had an army of making war, going out to war by troops, according to the number of their oversight by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's leaders. 12 The whole number of the heads of the fathers of the mighty men of valor+ was 2,600. 13 Under their hand was an army of 307,500 that made war with mighty valor+ to help the king against the enemy. 14 Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields and spears and helmets and coats of armor and bows and stones for the slings. 15 He made engines in Jerusalem, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones with. And his name spread far abroad. For he was wonderfully helped until he was strong. 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to ruin. For he sinned against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him 80 priests of the Lord, mighty men. 18 They withstood Uzziah the king and said to him, It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the temple, for you have sinned. Nor shall it be for your honor from the Lord God. 19 Uzziah was angry. And he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy even rose in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar. 20 Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him and saw that he was leprous in his forehead. So they thrust him out from there. He himself hurried to go also because the Lord had stricken him. 21 Uzziah the king was a leper until the day of his death and he lived in a separate house as a leper. So 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 The rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote. 23 Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial of the kings. For they said, He is a leper. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
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