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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 Gur­baal, 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.