Chronological
15 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
2 He was sixteen years old when he was made king; and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
3 And he did uprightly in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
4 But the high places were not put away. The people still offered and burned incense in the high places.
5 And the LORD struck the king. And he was a leper until the day of his death and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham, the king’s son, governed the house, judging the people of the land.
6 Concerning the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
7 So Azariah slept with his fathers. And they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. And Jotham, his son, reigned in his place.
8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel in Samaria (for six months),
9 and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did his fathers. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
10 And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, conspired against him and struck him, in the sight of the people, and killed him and reigned in his place.
11 Concerning the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
12 This was the Word of the LORD which He spoke to Jehu, saying: “Your sons shall sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation after you.” And it was so.
13 Shallum, the son of Jabesh, began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah. And he reigned in Samaria for the space of a month.
14 For Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria and struck Shallum, the son of Jabesh, in Samaria, and killed him and reigned in his place.
15 Concerning the rest of the acts of Shallum and the treason which he worked, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
16 Then, from Tirzah, Menahem destroyed Tiphsah and all who were in it, and its territories, because they did not open to him. And he struck it and ripped up all their women with child.
17 The thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, began to reign over Israel in Samaria (for ten years).
18 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. And for all his days, he did not depart from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
19 Then Pul, the king of Assyria, came against the land. And Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, so that his hand might be with him and establish the kingdom in his hand.
20 And Menahem exacted the money in Israel, so that all men of substance would give the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver a piece. So, the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land.
21 Concerning the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?
22 And Menahem slept with his fathers. And Pekahiah, his son, reigned in his place.
23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, began to reign over Israel in Samaria (for two years).
24 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
25 And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, had his captain conspire against him, and strike him in Samaria, in the place of the king’s palace, with Argob and Arieh, and fifty men of the Gileadites. So he killed him and reigned in his place.
26 Concerning the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah, king of Judah, Pekah, the son of Remaliah, began to reign over Israel in Samaria (for twenty years).
28 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.
29 In the days of Pekah, king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, came and took Ijon and Abel Beth Maachah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them away to Assyria.
30 And Hoshea, the son of Elah, worked treason against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and struck him and killed him, and reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah.
31 Concerning the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
32 In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
33 He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.
34 And he did uprightly in the sight of the LORD. He did according to all that his father, Uzziah, had done.
35 But the high places were not put away. The people still offered and burnt incense in the high places. He built the highest gate of the House of the LORD.
36 Concerning the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
37 In those days, the LORD began to send Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, against Judah.
38 And Jotham slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the City of David, his father. And Ahaz, his son, reigned in his place.
26 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father, Amaziah.
2 He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.
3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
4 And he did uprightly 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 understood the visions of God). And when he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
6 For he went forth and fought against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur Baal and Hammeunim.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah. And his name spread to the entrance of Egypt. For he did most valiantly.
9 Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate and at the valley gate and at the corner and made them strong.
10 And he built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns; for he had many cattle, both in the valleys and plains, and plowmen and dressers of vines in the mountains and in Carmel. For he loved the land.
11 Uzziah also had an army of fighting men who went out to war by bands, according to the count of their number prepared by 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 families of the valiant men was two thousand six hundred.
13 And under their hand, the army for war was three hundred seven thousand, and five hundred who fought valiantly to help the king against the enemy.
14 And throughout all the camp, Uzziah prepared shields and spears and helmets and armor and bows and stones to sling.
15 He also made engines in Jerusalem, devised by cunning men, to be upon the towers and upon the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far and wide, because God helped him marvelously until he was mighty.
16 But after he became 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 eighty priests of the LORD, valiant men.
18 And they stood before Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to offer incense. Go forth from the Sanctuary. For you have transgressed. And you shall have no honor from the LORD God.”
19 Then Uzziah was angry. And he had incense in his hand, to burn it. And while he was angry with the priests, leprosy rose up in his forehead in front of the priests, in the House of the LORD, beside the incense Altar.
20 And when Azariah, the High Priest, looked upon him with all the priests, behold, he was leprous in his forehead. And they had him quickly depart from there. And he was compelled to go out, because the LORD had stricken him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper until the day of his death, and dwelt as a leper in a separate house, because he was cut off from the House of the LORD. And Jotham, his son, ruled over the king’s House and judged the people of the land.
22 Concerning the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, wrote Isaiah the Prophet, the son of Amoz.
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 place.
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