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19 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to make offering, and when he became angry with the priests a leprous[a] disease broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense. 20 When the chief priest Azariah, and all the priests, looked at him, he was leprous[b] in his forehead. They hurried him out, and he himself hurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him. 21 King Uzziah was leprous[c] to the day of his death, and being leprous[d] lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace of the king, governing the people of the land.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 26:19 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain
  2. 2 Chronicles 26:20 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain
  3. 2 Chronicles 26:21 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain
  4. 2 Chronicles 26:21 A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain

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