of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
[26] Now the rest
of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel?
[27] Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy
against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.
[28]
And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
2Chr.26
[1] Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the
room of his father Amaziah.
[2] He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his
fathers.
[3] Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in
Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
[4] And he did that which was right in
the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
[5] And he sought God in the days
of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God
made him to prosper.
[6] And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall
of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the
Philistines.
[7] And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-
baal, and the Mehunims.
[8] And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even
to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
[9] Moreover Uzziah built towers in
Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
[10]
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country,
and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved
husbandry.
[11] Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according
to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand
of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
[12] The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty
men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
[13] And under their hand was an army, three hundred
thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against
the enemy.
[14] And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets,
and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
[15] And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented
by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal.
And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
[16] But when he
was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God,
and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
[17] And Azariah the
priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
[18] And they
withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense
unto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of
the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
[19] Then
Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests,
the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the
incense altar.
[20] And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was
leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because
the LORD had smitten him.
[21] And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in
a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was
over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
[22] Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and
last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
[23] So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried
him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and
Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
2Chr.27
[1] Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
[2] And he did that which was right in the
sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of
the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
[3] He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on