2 Chronicles 26:1
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.
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. 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
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.
2 Chronicles 26:19
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.
2 Chronicles 27:2
27:2 He did what the
Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.
(He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.)
Yet the people were still sinning.