2 Chronicles Chapter 26
26:1 | Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years old, and made him ![]() |
26:2 | He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the ![]() |
26:3 | Sixteen years old [was] Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in ![]() ![]() |
26:4 | And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did. |
26:5 | And he sought God in the ![]() |
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. |
26:7 | And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims. |
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. |
26:9 | Moreover Uzziah built towers in ![]() |
26:10 | Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much ![]() |
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 ![]() |
26:12 | The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour [were] two thousand and six hundred. |
26:13 | And under their hand [was] an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty ![]() ![]() |
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. |
26:15 | And he made in ![]() |
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. |
26:17 | And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, [that were] valiant men: |
26:18 | And they withstood Uzziah the ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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. |
26:21 | And Uzziah the ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
26:22 | Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. |
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 ![]() |