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15 In Jerusalem he made machines invented by skillful men to be on the towers and the [corner] bulwarks, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped till he was strong.

16 But when [King Uzziah] was strong, he became proud to his destruction; and he trespassed against the Lord his God, for he went [a]into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

17 And Azariah the priest went in after him and with him eighty priests of the Lord, men of courage.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 26:16 No one but an ordained priest was permitted by law to enter the tabernacle or later the temple proper, even in Jesus’ time. See footnote on Num. 3:38.

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