14:026:014 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout
all the host shields,
and
spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and
slings
to
cast stones.
14:026:015 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented
by cunning men, to
be
on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows
and
great
stones withal. And his name spread far abroad;
for he
was
marvellously helped, till he was strong.
14:026:016 But when he was 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.
14:026:017 And Azariah the priest went in after him,
and with him
fourscore
priests of the lord, that were valiant men:
14:026:018 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and
said unto him, It
appertaineth
not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the
lord,
but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are
consecrated
to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for
thou
hast
trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from
the
lord
God.
14:026:019 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer
in his hand to burn
incense:
and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy
even
rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house
of
the lord, from beside the incense altar.
14:026:020 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the
priests, looked upon
him,
and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they
thrust
him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go
out,
because the lord had smitten him.
14:026:021 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the
day of his death, and
dwelt
in a several 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.
14:026:022 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first
and last, did Isaiah
the
prophet, the son of Amoz, write.
14:026:023 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 stead.
14:027:001 Jotham was twenty and five years old when
he began to reign,
and
he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s
name
also
was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.
14:027:002 And he did that which was right in the
sight of the lord,
according
to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he
entered
not into the temple of the lord. And the
people did
yet
corruptly.


