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Text -- 2 Chronicles 26:1-23 (NET)
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Uzziah’s Reign
26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah , who was sixteen years old , and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place .
26:2 Uzziah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah had passed away .
26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign , and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem . His mother’s name was Jecholiah , who was from Jerusalem .
26:4 He did what the Lord approved , just as his father Amaziah had done .
26:5 He followed God during the lifetime of Zechariah , who taught him how to honor God . As long as he followed the Lord , God caused him to succeed .
26:6 Uzziah attacked the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath , Jabneh , and Ashdod . He built cities in the region of Ashdod and throughout Philistine territory.
26:7 God helped him in his campaigns against the Philistines , the Arabs living in Gur Baal , and the Meunites .
26:8 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah and his fame reached the border of Egypt , for he grew in power .
26:9 Uzziah built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate , Valley Gate , and at the Angle .
26:10 He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns , for he owned many herds in the lowlands and on the plain . He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel , for he loved agriculture .
26:11 Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle . They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah , a royal official .
26:12 The total number of family leaders who led warriors was 2,600 .
26:13 They commanded an army of 307,500 skilled and able warriors who were ready to defend the king against his enemies .
26:14 Uzziah supplied shields , spears , helmets , breastplates , bows , and slingstones for the entire army .
26:15 In Jerusalem he made war machines carefully designed to shoot arrows and large stones from the towers and corners of the walls. He became very famous , for he received tremendous support and became powerful .
26:16 But once he became powerful , his pride destroyed him. He disobeyed the Lord his God . He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar .
26:17 Azariah the priest and eighty other brave priests of the Lord followed him in.
26:18 They confronted King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not proper for you, Uzziah , to offer incense to the Lord . That is the responsibility of the priests , the descendants of Aaron , who are consecrated to offer incense . Leave the sanctuary , for you have disobeyed and the Lord God will not honor you!”
26:19 Uzziah , who had an incense censer in his hand , became angry . While he was ranting and raving at the priests , a skin disease appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar .
26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at him, there was a skin disease on his forehead . They hurried him out of there ; even the king himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.
26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died . He lived in separate quarters , afflicted by a skin disease and banned from the Lord’s temple . His son Jotham was in charge of the palace and ruled over the people of the land .
26:22 The rest of the events of Uzziah’s reign, from start to finish , were recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz .
26:23 Uzziah passed away and was buried near his ancestors in a cemetery belonging to the kings . (This was because he had a skin disease .) His son Jotham replaced him as king .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Uzziah |
JUDAH, KINGDOM OF |
Israel |
ZABAD |
UZZIAH; (AZARIAH) |
AZARIAH |
Tiglath-Pileser III. |
God |
CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF |
Blessing |
Jotham |
Armies |
Church and State |
Usurpation |
Sacrilege |
Incense |
TEMPLE, A1 |
Minister |
Leprosy |
Disease |
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NET Notes -> 2Ch 26:1; 2Ch 26:2; 2Ch 26:2; 2Ch 26:2; 2Ch 26:3; 2Ch 26:4; 2Ch 26:5; 2Ch 26:5; 2Ch 26:5; 2Ch 26:5; 2Ch 26:6; 2Ch 26:6; 2Ch 26:7; 2Ch 26:8; 2Ch 26:9; 2Ch 26:10; 2Ch 26:10; 2Ch 26:10; 2Ch 26:13; 2Ch 26:15; 2Ch 26:16; 2Ch 26:16; 2Ch 26:18; 2Ch 26:18; 2Ch 26:19; 2Ch 26:19; 2Ch 26:20; 2Ch 26:20; 2Ch 26:21; 2Ch 26:22; 2Ch 26:23; 2Ch 26:23; 2Ch 26:23; 2Ch 26:23
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:3 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:4 Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Amaziah his father had done.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:7 The words “in his campaigns” are supplied in the translation for clarity and for stylistic reasons
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:9 On the meaning of the Hebrew word מִקְצוֹעַ (miqtsoa’), see HALOT 628 s.v. עַ(...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:15 Heb “and his name went out to a distant place, for he did extraordinarily to be helped until he was strong.”
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:19 Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s diseas...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:20 Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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NET Notes: 2Ch 26:22 Heb “As for the rest of the events of Uzziah, the former and the latter, Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, recorded.”
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