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And all the people of Judah took Azariah (Hebr. Azarjah) [also called Uzziah], who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
[Azariah is the same person as Uzziah, see ; ; . He is the eighth king of Judah after the division and the tenth king after David. In this chapter, there are two spellings of his name in Hebr. Azarjah (verses 1, 7, 17, 23, 27) and Azarajaho (verses 6 and 8).]
In the 27th year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah (Hebr. Azarjah) [Uzziah], son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
The rest of the acts of Azariah (Hebr. Azarjaho) [Uzziah], and all that he did, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
And Azariah (Hebr. Azarjah) [Uzziah] slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David. And Jotham his son reigned in his place.
[Zechariah (Hebr. Zecharjaho) was the 14th king of Israel. He reigned for six months before being killed by his successor. The shorter form of his name, Zechariah, is used in ; .]
In the 38th year of Azariah (Hebr. Azarjaho) [Uzziah], king of Judah, Zechariah (Hebr. Zecharjaho), son of Jeroboam, reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months.
[Shallum was the 15th king of Israel (the Northern Kingdom). He led a conspiracy against his predecessor, see . He reigned for only one month.
Shallum, son of Javesh, began to reign in the 39th year of Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho), king of Judah [also called Azariah], and he reigned one month in the territory of Samaria.]
[Menachem was the 16th king of the northern kingdom. His name means "comforter," which is ironic considering his violent rise to power. He reigned for 10 years (752-742 BC).]
In the 39th year of Azariah (Hebr. Azarjah) [Uzziah], king of Judah, Menachem, son of Gad, began to reign over Israel, and he reigned for ten years in Samaria.
[Pecahiah (sometimes simplified in English to Pekahiah) means "Yahweh sees" or "Yahweh has opened." He is the 17th king of the northern kingdom and reigned for two years (742-740 BC). He is not mentioned in the Books of Chronicles. In the 50th year of Azariah (Hebr. Azarjah) [Uzziah], king of Judah, Pekahiah, son of Menahem, began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned for two years.]
In the 52nd year of Azariah (Hebr. Azarjah) [Uzziah], king of Judah, Pekah, son of Remaliah, began to reign over Israel in Samaria and reigned 20 years.
And Hoshea, the son of Elah, conspired against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and struck him down and killed him, and reigned in his place in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijahos).
[Jotham was 25 years old when he became king and reigned over Judah (the Southern Kingdom) for 18 years (759-743 BC). He was co-regent with his leprous father until 742 BC, see .] In the second year of Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel [in the north], Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, began to reign [in the Southern Kingdom].
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord (Yahweh), doing everything his father Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho) had done.
whose son was Amaziah (Hebr. Amatsjaho),
whose son was Azariah [Uzziah, see ; ; ],
whose son was Jotham,
[Uzziah reigned over Judah (the Southern Kingdom) for 52 years (811-759 BC)]
All the people of Judah took Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho), who was then 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Uzziah was 16 years old when he became king, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah, and she was from Jerusalem.
The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as Egypt, for he became very powerful.
Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem over the Corner Gate, over the Valley Gate, and over the Angle, and fortified them.
Uzziah also had an army that was ready for battle, which went out in divisions mustered and counted by the scribe Jehuel and the officer Maaseiah under the supervision of Hananiah, one of the king's commanders.
Uzziah supplied this entire army with shields and spears, helmets and armor, bows and slings.
They approached King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not your place, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but it belongs to the priests, the sons of Aaron. They are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have acted treacherously, and it will not bring you honor from the Lord God."
Then Uzziah became furious where he stood with the incense burner in his hand to burn incense. But just as he raged against the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in front of the priests, inside the house of the Lord (Yahweh) next to the altar of incense.
The high priest Azariah and all the priests turned toward him, and behold, he was leprous on his forehead! They immediately drove him out, and he himself hurried out, because the Lord had punished him.
King Uzziah was a leper until the day he died, and he lived in a separate house. Because he was a leper, he was excluded from the house of the Lord (Yahweh). His son Jotham was in charge (literally: 'was over') of the king's house [palace] and judged the people of the land.
What else there is to say about Uzziah, about his early days as well as his last, has been written down by the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz.
Uzziah rested with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the burial ground belonging to the kings, because he had been a leper. His son Jotham succeeded him as king.
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Uzziah had done, and he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people continued to do evil.
The vision of Isaiah (Hebr. Yeshayahu), son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem (in those days, in those times) when
Uzziah [Hebr. Uzziyah; also called Azariah; 10th king of the Southern Kingdom, ca. 791-739 BC – a good king, but died a leper, see ], Jotham [11th king of the Southern Kingdom, ca. 759-742 BC – a good king, see ], Ahaz [12th ruler of the Southern Kingdom, ca. 735-715 BC – did evil, see ; ; ] and Hezekiah [Hebr. Chizkijaho; 13th king of the Southern Kingdom, ca. 715-686 BC – a good king and reformer, see ; ; ] were kings of Judah.
[Isaiah's father was named Amoz. His name is similar to that of the prophet Amos of Tekoa (who lived earlier in the mid-700s BC) and wrote the Book of Amos, see . Isaiah received his calling in 740 BC (, ) and his 50 years of service spanned the reigns of four kings until 686 BC. According to tradition, he was sawed in half as a martyr by Manasseh (Hezekiah's son), see ; .]
[King Uzziah was a good king on the whole and did many good things, see . However, his life ended in humiliation. He crossed the line that God had set that no king should also be a priest—this would not happen until the Messiah came who was both king and priest. He became a leper in his last years, see . The prophet Isaiah had every reason to be gloomy and disillusioned at the death of King Uzziah. However, there is a throne higher than the human throne!]
In the year that King Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho) died [ca. 740 BC], I saw [in a vision] the Lord sitting high and exalted on a throne, and the train of his robe filled the temple.
It happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho), king of Judah [735-715 BC], that King Rezin of Aram (Syria) [740-733 BC] and King Pekah, son of Remaliah, of Israel [Northern Kingdom, 752-732 BC] went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it. [; ]
The word of the Lord (Yahweh) that came to [the prophet] Hosea (Hebr. Hoshea; meaning: salvation), son of Beeri, in the days of
Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho) [10th ruler of the Southern Kingdom; reigned 788-736 BC],
Jotham [11th ruler of the Southern Kingdom; reigned approx. 758-742 BC, first ten years together with his leprous father (), then alone, and finally three years with his son Ahaz],
Ahaz [12th ruler of the Southern Kingdom; reigned c. 742-726 BC, the last years together with his son Hezekiah]
and Hezekiah (Hebr. Jechizqijah) [13th king of the Southern Kingdom; reigned 726-697 BC]
were kings of Judah [the Southern Kingdom]
and the days when
Jeroboam [the second, reigned 793-753 BC] was king of Israel [the 13th king of the Northern Kingdom].
[Hosea served as a prophet in the northern kingdom for about 40 years (760-722 BC). Only Jeroboam II of the northern kingdom is mentioned here. The last six kings are: Zechariah, Shallum, Menahem, Pekahiah, Pekah, and Hosea. They reigned from about 750 to 722 BC, when the capital Samaria was captured by the Assyrian ruler Sargon II and the population of the country was deported to Assyria.]
Prov of Amos, one of the shepherds from Tekoa [a small town in the hill country of Judah, 16 km south of Jerusalem]. This is what he saw concerning Israel [the northern kingdom] when
Uzziah (Hebr. Uzzijaho) was king of Judah [783-742 BC] and
Jeroboam, Joash's son, was king of Israel [786-746 BC],
two years before the earthquake.
[The earthquake is also mentioned in . During excavations in 2021 on the eastern slopes of the City of David, a large number of broken vessels, bowls, and lamps were found. The findings are consistent with similar findings in northern Israel that indicate an earthquake during the reign of King Uzziah in the mid-700s BC.
Amos, who is from Judah (the southern kingdom), is thus writing to Israel (the northern kingdom). In 722 BC, the northern kingdom falls to Assyria, so these words are written about 40 years before this event.]
You shall flee to the clefts of the rocks, for the clefts of the rocks shall reach as far as Azal [an unknown place east of Jerusalem; meaning "reserved"]. Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah, king of Judah [who reigned 788-736 BC], and the Lord (Yahweh) my God (Elohim) shall come, and all his saints with him. [; ; ; ]
Asa begot Jehoshaphat,
Jehoshaphat begot Joram,
Joram begot Uzziah [here Matthew skips three generations – Ahaziah, Joash, and Amaziah, see ; ; ],
Uzziah begot Jotham,
Jotham begot Ahaz,
Ahaz begot Hezekiah,
