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26:11 Uzziah <05818> had an army of skilled warriors <02428> trained <06213> for battle <04421>. They were organized <03318> by divisions <01416> <06635> according to the muster <06486> rolls <04557> made by <03027> Jeiel <03273> the scribe <05608> and Maaseiah <04641> the officer <07860> under <05921> the authority <03027> of Hananiah <02608>, a royal <04428> official <08269>. 26:12 The total <03605> number <04557> of family <01> leaders <07218> who led warriors <02428> <01368> was 2,600 <03967> <08337> <0505>. 26:13 They commanded <03027> an army <06635> of 307,500 <03967> <02568> <0505> <07651> <0505> <03967> <07969> skilled and able warriors <02428> <03581> who were ready <05826> to defend <04421> <06213> the king <04428> against <05921> his enemies <0341>. 26:14 Uzziah <05818> supplied <03559> shields <04043>, spears <07420>, helmets <03553>, breastplates <08302>, bows <07198>, and slingstones <07050> <068> for the entire <03605> army <06635>. 26:15 In Jerusalem <03389> he made <06213> war machines <02810> carefully <02803> designed <04284> to shoot <03384> arrows <02678> and large <01419> stones <068> from the towers <04026> and corners <06438> of the walls. He became very famous <08034>, for <03588> he received tremendous <06381> support <05826> and became powerful <02388>. 26:16 But once <05704> he became powerful <02393>, his pride <03820> <01361> destroyed <07843> him. He disobeyed <04603> the Lord <03068> his God <0430>. He entered <0935> the Lord’s <03068> temple <01964> to offer incense <06999> on <05921> the incense <07004> altar <04196>. 26:17 Azariah <05838> the priest <03548> and eighty <08084> other brave <02428> priests <03548> of the Lord <03068> followed <0310> him in. 26:18 They confronted <05921> <05975> King <04428> Uzziah <05818> and said <0559> to him, “It is not proper <03808> for you, Uzziah <05818>, to offer incense <06999> to the Lord <03068>. That <03588> is the responsibility of the priests <03548>, the descendants <01121> of Aaron <0175>, who are consecrated <06942> to offer incense <06999>. Leave <04480> <03318> the sanctuary <04720>, for <03588> you have disobeyed <04603> and the Lord <03068> God <0430> will not <03808> honor <03519> you!” 26:19 Uzziah <05818>, who had an incense <06999> censer <04730> in his hand <03027>, became angry <02196>. While he was ranting and raving <02196> at <05973> the priests <03548>, a skin disease <06883> appeared <02224> on his forehead <04696> right there in front of <06440> the priests <03548> in the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> near <05921> the incense <07004> altar <04196>. 26:20 When Azariah <05838> the high <07218> priest <03548> and the other <03605> priests <03548> looked <06437> at <0413> him, there was a skin disease <06879> on his forehead <04696>. They hurried <0926> him out <0926> of there <08033>; even <01571> the king himself <01931> wanted to leave <03318> quickly <01765> because <03588> the Lord <03068> had afflicted <05060> him. 26:21 King <04428> Uzziah <05818> suffered from a skin disease <06879> until <05704> the day <03117> he died <04194>. He lived <03427> in separate <02669> quarters <01004>, afflicted by a skin disease <06879> and <03588> banned <01504> from the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>. His son <01121> Jotham <03147> was in charge of <05921> the palace <04428> <01004> and ruled over <08199> the people <05971> of the land <0776>. 26:22 The rest <03499> of the events <01697> of Uzziah’s <05818> reign, from start <07223> to finish <0314>, were recorded <03789> by the prophet <05030> Isaiah <03470> son <01121> of Amoz <0531>. 26:23 Uzziah <05818> passed away <01> <05973> <07901> and was buried <06912> near his ancestors <01> in a cemetery <06900> <07704> belonging to the kings <04428>. (This was because <03588> he had a skin disease <06879>.) His son <01121> Jotham <03147> replaced <08478> him as king <04427>.

• 2Ch 26:1-23 -- Uzziah's Reign

• ZABAD

  [isbe] ZABAD - za'-bad (zabhadh, perhaps a contraction for (1) zebhadhyah, "Yahweh has given," i.e. Zebadiah; or (2) zabhdi'el, "El (God) is my gift" (HPN, 222 f); Zabed(t), with many variants): (1) A Jerahmeelite (1 Ch 2:36,37), s...
  

• Uzziah

  [ebd] a contracted form of Azari'ah the Lord is my strength. (1.) One of Amaziah's sons, whom the people made king of Judah in his father's stead (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 26:1). His long reign of about fifty-two years was "the most ...
  [smith] (strength of Jehovah). King of Judah B.C. 809-8 to 757-6. In some passages his name appears in the lengthened form Azariah: After the murder of Amaziah, his son Uzziah was chosen by the people, at the age of sixteen, to occu...
  [nave] UZZIAH 1. Called Azariah. King of Judah, 2 Kin. 14:21; 15:1, 2; 2 Chr. 26:1, 3. Rebuilds Elath, 2 Kin. 14:22; 2 Chr. 26:2. Reigns righteously, 2 Kin. 15:3; 2 Chr. 26:4, 5. Defeats the Philistines, 2 Chr. 26:6, 7. Takes t...
  

• UZZIAH; (AZARIAH)

  [isbe] UZZIAH; (AZARIAH) - u-zi'-a, oo-zi'-a (`uzziyah (2 Ki 15:13,30; Hos 1:1; Am 1:1; Zec 14:5), `uzziyahu (2 Ki 15:32,34; Isa 1:1; 6:1; 7:1; 2 Ch 26:1 ff; 27:2); also called `azaryah (2 Ki 14:21; 15:1,7; 1 Ch 3:12), 'azaryahu (2...
  

• Tiglath-Pileser III.

  [ebd] or Tilgath-Pil-neser, the Assyrian throne-name of Pul (q.v.). He appears in the Assyrian records as gaining, in the fifth year of his reign (about B.C. 741), a victory over Azariah (= Uzziah in 2 Chr.26:1), king of Judah, wh...
  

• TEMPLE, A1

  [isbe] TEMPLE, A1 - tem'-p'l (hekhal, "palace"; sometimes, as in 1 Ki 6:3,5, etc.; Ezek 41:1,15 ff, used for "the holy place" only; bayith, "house," thus always in the Revised Version (British and American); hieron, naos): A. STRUC...
  

• Sacrilege

  [nave] SACRILEGE, profaning holy things. Forbidden, Lev. 19:8; 1 Cor. 3:17; Tit. 1:11; 1 Pet. 5:2. Instances of Esau sells his birthright, Gen. 25:33. Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire, Lev. 10:1-7; Num. 3:4. Of Uzzah, 2 Sam. 6...
  

• JUDAH, KINGDOM OF

  [isbe] JUDAH, KINGDOM OF - || I. CANAAN BEFORE THE MONARCHY 1. The Coming of the Semites 2. The Canaanites 3. The Israelite Confederacy 4. Migration into Canaan 5. The Bond of Union 6. Early Rulers 7. The Judges 8. Hereditary Kings...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Incense

  [nave] INCENSE Formula for compounding, Ex. 30:34, 35. Uses of, Ex. 30:36-38; Lev. 16:12; Num. 16:17, 40, 46; Deut. 33:10. Compounded by Bezaleel, Ex. 37:29; by priests, 1 Chr. 9:30. Offered morning and evening, Ex. 30:7, 8; 2 C...
  

• Host

  [ebd] an entertainer (Rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a caravansary (Luke 10:35). In warfare, a troop or military force. This consisted at first only of infantry. Solomon afterwards added cavalry (1 Kings 4:26; 10:26)....
  

• Engines

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. hishalon i.e., "invention" (as in Eccl. 7:29) contrivances indicating ingenuity. In 2 Chr. 26:15 it refers to inventions for the purpose of propelling missiles from the walls of a town, such as stones (the Roman ba...
  

• Coat of mail

  [ebd] the rendering of a Hebrew word meaning "glittering" (1 Sam. 17:5, 38). The same word in the plural form is translated "habergeons" in 2 Chr. 26:14 and Neh. 4:16. The "harness" (1 Kings 22:34), "breastplate" (Isa. 59:17), and...
  

• Church and State

  [nave] CHURCH AND STATE (Identical in the theocratic period. No particular Scripture can be cited, but the student is directed to the legislative, judicial, and administrative functions of Moses, Joshua, the Judges, and Samuel as s...
  

• CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF

  [ebd] The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and hence "Chronicles." In the Sep...
  [isbe] CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF - kron'-i-k'-ls (dibhere ha-yamim, "The Words of the Days"; Septuagint paraleipomenon: 1. The Name 2. The Position of Chronicles in the Old Testament 3. Two Books, or One? 4. The Contents 5. Sources Bibl...
  

• CENSER

  [ebd] the vessel in which incense was presented on "the golden altar" before the Lord in the temple (Ex. 30:1-9). The priest filled the censer with live coal from the sacred fire on the altar of burnt-offering, and having carried ...
  [isbe] CENSER - sen'-ser: In the King James Version censer is used as a translation of two Hebrew words, namely, machtah, and miqTereth. The former word is generally rendered "censer," sometimes "firepan," and in three cases (Ex 25...
  [smith] A small portable vessel of metal fitted to receive burning coals from the altar, and on which the incense for burning was sprinkled. (2 Chronicles 26:19; Luke 1:9) The only distinct precepts regarding the use of the censer...
  

• Bulwarks

  [ebd] mural towers, bastions, were introduced by king Uzziah (2 Chr. 26:15; Zeph. 1:16; Ps. 48:13; Isa. 26:1). There are five Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version, but the same word is also variously rendered.
  

• AZARIAH

  [ebd] whom Jehovah helps. (1.) Son of Ethan, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chr. 2:8). (2.) Son of Ahimaaz, who succeeded his grandfather Zadok as high priest (1 Chr. 6:9; 1 Kings 4:2) in the days of Solomon. He officiated at the consec...
  [isbe] AZARIAH - az-a-ri'-a `azaryahu and `azaryah, "Yahweh has helped"): (1) King of Judah. See UZZIAH. (2) A Judahite of the house of Ethan the Wise (1 Ch 2:8). (3) The son of Jehu, descended from an Egyptian through the daughter...
  [smith] (whom the Lord helps) a common name in Hebrew, and especially in the families of the priests of the line of Eleazar, whose name has precisely the same meaning as Azariah. It is nearly identical, and is often confounded, with ...
  

• ARMY

  [ebd] The Israelites marched out of Egypt in military order (Ex. 13:18, "harnessed;" marg., "five in a rank"). Each tribe formed a battalion, with its own banner and leader (Num. 2:2; 10:14). In war the army was divided into thous...
  [isbe] ARMY - ar'-mi (chayil, "army," tsabha', "host," ma`arakhah, "army in battle array" gedhudh, "troop"): 1. The First Campaign of History 2. In the Wilderness 3. The Times after the Conquest 4. In the Early Monarchy 5. From the...
  [smith] I. JEWISH ARMY.--Every man above 20 years of age was a soldier, (Numbers 1:3) each tribe formed a regiment, with its own banner and its own leader (Numbers 2:2; 10:14) their positions in the camp or on the march were accurate...
  

• AMOZ

  [isbe] AMOZ - a'-moz (amots, "strong"): The father of Isaiah the prophet (2 Ki 19:2,20; 20:1; 2 Ch 26:22; 32:20,32; Isa 1:1; 2:1; 13:1; 20:2; 37:2,21; 38:1).
  

• AHAZ

  [isbe] AHAZ - a'-haz ('achaz, "he has grasped," 2 Ki 16; 2 Ch 28; Isa 7:10 ff; Achaz). 1. Name: The name is the same as Jehoahaz; hence appears on Tiglath-pileser's Assyrian inscription of 732 BC as Ia-u-ha-zi. The sacred historian...
  

• King Azariah (Uzziah)

  

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