2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, ¹  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. ²  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 ³  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. ⁴ 

2 Chronicles 26:19

26:19 Uzziah, who had an incense censer in his hand, became angry. While he was ranting and raving ⁵  at the priests, a skin disease ⁶  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. ⁷  (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) ⁸  Yet the people were still sinning.

[26:1]  ¹ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

[26:3]  ² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[26:8]  ³ tn Heb “and his name went to.”

[26:9]  ⁴ 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.

[26:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “angry.”

[26:19]  ⁶ 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.

[27:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

[27:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”