2 Chronicles 26:16
And when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction; and he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
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17And there went in after him Azariah the priest, and with him eighty priests of the Lord, mighty men.
Cross References
Numbers 16:7and put fire on them, and put incense on them before the Lord tomorrow; and it shall come to pass that the man whom the Lord has chosen, he shall be holy: let it be enough for you, ye sons of Levi.
Numbers 16:35And fire went forth from the Lord, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Deuteronomy 8:14thou shouldest be exalted in heart, and forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
Deuteronomy 32:13He brought them up on the strength of the land; 1 He fed them with the fruits of the fields; 1 They sucked honey out of the rock, 1 And oil out of the solid rock. 1
2 Kings 14:10Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So both thou wilt fall and Judah with thee.
2 Kings 16:12And the king saw the altar, and went up to it,
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 26:2-16
Uzziah's Prosperity. ( b. c. 800.) 1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord , according to all that his father Amaziah did. 5 And he… Read the whole commentary →