2 Chronicles 26:14

26:14 Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.

2 Chronicles 26:22

26:22 The rest of the events of Uzziah’s reign, from start to finish, were recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. ¹ 

2 Chronicles 26:18

26:18 They confronted ²  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 ³  and the Lord God will not honor you!”

2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, ⁴  who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Chronicles 26:3

26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. ⁵  His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 26:8-9

26:8 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah and his fame reached ⁶  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. ⁷ 

2 Chronicles 26:19

26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving ⁸  at the priests, a skin disease ⁹  appeared on his forehead right there in front of the priests in the Lord’s temple near the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 27:2

27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. ¹⁰  (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) ¹¹  Yet the people were still sinning.

2 Chronicles 26:11

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.

2 Chronicles 26:21

26:21 King Uzziah suffered from a skin disease until the day he died. He lived in separate quarters, ¹²  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.

2 Chronicles 26:23

26:23 Uzziah passed away ¹³  and was buried near his ancestors ¹⁴  in a cemetery ¹⁵  belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) ¹⁶  His son Jotham replaced him as king.

¹ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Uzziah, the former and the latter, Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, recorded.”

¹ tn Heb “stood against.”

² tn Or “been unfaithful.”

¹ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

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¹ tn Heb “and his name went to.”

¹ tn On the meaning of the Hebrew word מִקְצוֹעַ (miqtsoa’), see HALOT 628 s.v. עַ(וֹ)מִקְצֹ. The term probably refers to an “angle” or “corner” somewhere on the eastern wall of Jerusalem.

¹ tn Heb “angry.”

² tn Traditionally “leprosy,” but this was probably a skin disorder of some type, not leprosy (technically known today as Hansen’s disease). See 2 Kgs 5:1.

¹ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

² tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

¹ tn The precise meaning of בֵּית הַחָפְשִׁית (bet hakhafshiyt, “house of [?]”) is uncertain. NASB, NIV, NRSV all have “in a separate house”; NEB has “in his own house…relieved of all duties.” For a discussion of various proposals, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 166-67.

¹ tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”

² tn Heb “fathers.”

³ tn Heb “a field of burial.”

⁴ tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”