2 Chronicles 26:1
Then all the people of the land took Ozias, and he was sixteen years old, and they made him king in the room of his father Amasias.
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In Context
2He built Ælath, he recovered it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.
Cross References
2 Kings 14:1In the second year of Joas the son of Joachaz king of Israel, did Amessias also the son of Joas the king of Juda begin to reign.
2 Kings 15:1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel Azarias the son of Amessias king of Juda + 15:1 Gr. reigned.began to reign.
2 Chronicles 22:1And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ochozias his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of robbers that came against them, even the Arabians and the Alimazonians, had slain all the elder ones. So Ochozias son of Joram king of Juda reigned.
Amos 1:1The words of Amos which came to him in Accarim out of Thecue, which he saw concerning Jerusalem, in the days of Ozias king of Juda, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joas king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
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 →