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    2 Chronicles 26

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    Uzziah entered the temple to burn incense, raged at the priests, and found leprosy breaking out on his forehead. It is a remarkably abrupt change of scenery for a king who had just been building towers, cities, cisterns, and machines for hurling stones.

    A king made powerfulvv. 1–15

    All Judah made sixteen-year-old Uzziah king after Amaziah, and he reigned in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. With Zechariah instructing him in the fear of God, he prospered: Elath was restored to Judah, the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod were torn down, cities were built among the Philistines, and tribute came from the Ammonites. He fortified Jerusalem, dug cisterns, cultivated the soil, organised an army of 307,500, equipped it thoroughly, and devised machines for shooting arrows and catapulting large stones. The list of achievements is impressively broad; even the king's interest in farming has been allowed its proper place beside military engineering.

    The censer and the foreheadvv. 16–23

    Then power tipped into arrogance. Uzziah entered the temple to burn incense, and Azariah the priest came after him with eighty brave priests. They told the king that this was not his office and ordered him out. Uzziah raged with the censer still in his hand; leprosy appeared on his forehead, and the priests rushed him out while he himself hurried away. He remained a leper and lived in isolation, while Jotham governed the land. Isaiah recorded the rest of Uzziah's acts, and when Uzziah died, he was buried near the kings, with the people's plain explanation: “He was a leper.”

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    1. 2 Chr 26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

    2. 2 Chr 26:2Uzziah was the one who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.

    3. 2 Chr 26:3Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.

    4. 2 Chr 26:4And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

    5. 2 Chr 26:5He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.

    6. 2 Chr 26:6Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines, and he tore down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then he built cities near Ashdod and among the Philistines.

    7. 2 Chr 26:7God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.

    8. 2 Chr 26:8The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had become exceedingly powerful.

    9. 2 Chr 26:9Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.

    10. 2 Chr 26:10Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

    11. 2 Chr 26:11Uzziah had an army ready for battle that went out to war by assigned divisions, as recorded by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officers.

    12. 2 Chr 26:12The total number of family leaders of the mighty men of valor was 2,600.

    13. 2 Chr 26:13Under their authority was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.

    14. 2 Chr 26:14Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.

    15. 2 Chr 26:15And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously until he became powerful.

    16. 2 Chr 26:16But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

    17. 2 Chr 26:17Then Azariah the priest, along with eighty brave priests of the LORD, went in after him.

    18. 2 Chr 26:18They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the LORD. Only the priests, the descendants of Aaron, are consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully; you will not receive honor from the LORD God.”

    19. 2 Chr 26:19Uzziah, with a censer in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But while he raged against the priests in their presence in the house of the LORD before the altar of incense, leprosy broke out on his forehead.

    20. 2 Chr 26:20When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw his leprous forehead, they rushed him out. Indeed, he himself hurried to get out, because the LORD had afflicted him.

    21. 2 Chr 26:21So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.

    22. 2 Chr 26:22As for the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from beginning to end, they are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

    23. 2 Chr 26:23And Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field of burial that belonged to the kings, for the people said, “He was a leper.” And his son Jotham reigned in his place.

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    • 52 Chronicles 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
    • 52 Chronicles 24:2And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
    • 162 Chronicles 32:25But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
    • 51 Chronicles 22:13Then you will succeed, if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances that the LORD commanded Moses for Israel. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged.
    • 162 Chronicles 25:19You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
    • 16Habakkuk 2:4Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—
    • 16Proverbs 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
    • 18Exodus 30:7–8And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps.
    • 5Daniel 5:16But I have heard about you, that you are able to give interpretations and solve difficult problems. Therefore, if you can read this inscription and give me its interpretation, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
    • 5Genesis 41:38So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
    • 9Nehemiah 3:13The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it, installed its doors, bolts, and bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
    • 18Numbers 18:7But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”
    • 5Genesis 41:15Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
    • 5Daniel 2:19During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven
    • 6Isaiah 14:29Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
    • 72 Chronicles 21:16Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

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