1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

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2 Chronicles 22:1, 2 Chronicles 22:1, 2 Kings 15:1, 2 Kings 15:7, 2 Kings 14:21

2He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

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2 Kings 14:22, 2 Chronicles 25:23, 2 Chronicles 25:28, 2 Kings 16:6, 2 Chronicles 8:17

3Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.

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2 Kings 15:2, 2 Kings 15:3, 2 Kings 15:2, 2 Kings 15:3, Amos 1:1

4He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

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2 Chronicles 25:2, 2 Chronicles 25:2

5He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.

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2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 2 Chronicles 24:2, 2 Chronicles 24:2, 1 Chronicles 22:13

6He went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

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Isaiah 14:29, Isaiah 14:29, 1 Samuel 5:6, 2 Chronicles 21:16, 1 Chronicles 18:1

7God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.

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2 Chronicles 21:16, 2 Chronicles 21:16, 1 Chronicles 5:20, 1 Chronicles 5:20, 2 Chronicles 14:11

8The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceeding strong.

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2 Chronicles 17:11, 2 Samuel 8:2, Genesis 19:38, 2 Chronicles 17:11, 2 Samuel 8:2

9Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

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Nehemiah 3:13, Nehemiah 3:13, 2 Kings 14:13, 2 Chronicles 25:23, 2 Kings 14:13

10He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.

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Genesis 26:18, Genesis 26:21, Isaiah 29:17, Genesis 26:18, Genesis 26:21

11Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

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2 Kings 5:2, 2 Kings 5:2

12The whole number of the heads of fathers' households, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.

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13Under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

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2 Chronicles 25:5, 2 Chronicles 17:14, 2 Chronicles 17:19, 2 Chronicles 11:1, 2 Chronicles 13:3

14Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.

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1 Samuel 17:49, Judges 20:16, 1 Samuel 17:49, Judges 20:16

15He made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad; for he was marvelously helped, until he was strong.

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Matthew 4:24, Matthew 4:24, Exodus 31:4, 2 Chronicles 2:14, 2 Chronicles 2:7

16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against the Lord his God; for he went into the Lord's temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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2 Chronicles 32:25, 2 Chronicles 32:25, 2 Chronicles 25:19, Proverbs 16:18, 2 Chronicles 25:19

17Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the Lord, who were valiant men:

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1 Chronicles 6:10, 1 Chronicles 6:10, 1 Chronicles 26:6, 1 Chronicles 12:28, 1 Chronicles 26:6

18and they resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, "It isn't for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your honor from the Lord God."

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Exodus 30:7, Exodus 30:8, Exodus 30:7, Exodus 30:8, Numbers 18:7

19Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the altar of incense.

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Numbers 12:10, Numbers 12:10, 2 Kings 5:25, 2 Kings 5:27, 2 Chronicles 16:10

20Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because the Lord had struck him.

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Esther 6:12, Deuteronomy 28:22, Deuteronomy 28:35, Leviticus 14:34, Esther 6:12

21Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate 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.

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Leviticus 13:46, Leviticus 13:46, Numbers 5:2, Numbers 5:3, 2 Kings 7:3

22Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote.

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Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 6:1, Isaiah 6:1, 2 Chronicles 9:29

23So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, "He is a leper." Jotham his son reigned in his place.

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2 Chronicles 21:20, 2 Chronicles 28:27, 2 Chronicles 21:20, 2 Chronicles 28:27, Isaiah 6:1