2 Chronicles 26:1
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
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2He was the builder of Eloth, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.
Cross References
2 Kings 14:1In the second year of Joash, son of Joahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah, the son of Joash, became king of Judah.
2 Kings 15:1In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 22:1And the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the army had put all the older sons to death. So Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, became king.
Amos 1:1The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what he saw about Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earth-shock.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 26:1
This chapter gives us an account of the reign of Uzziah (Azariah he was called in the Kings) more fully than we had it before, though it was long, and in some respects illustrious, yet it was very briefly related, 2 Kings xiv. 21 ; xv. 1 , &c. Here is, I. His good character in general, ver. 1-5 . II. His great prosperity in his wars, his buildings, and all the affairs of his kingdom, ver. 6-15 . III. His presumption in invading the priests' office, for which he was struck with a leprosy, and confined by it ( ver.… Read the whole commentary →