2 Chronicles 26:1-4

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. 26:2 Uzziah ²  built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah ³  had passed away. ⁴ 

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. 26:4 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Amaziah had done. ⁶ 

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

[26:2]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (Uzziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:2]  ³ tn Heb “after the king”; the referent (Amaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[26:2]  ⁴ tn “slept with his fathers.”

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

[26:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Amaziah his father had done.”