2 Chronicles 26:1
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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2It was he who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his ancestors.
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2 Kings 14:1In the second year of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah son of Joash, king of Judah, began to reign.
2 Kings 15:1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
2 Chronicles 22:1The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, Jehoram's youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men that came with the Arabians into the camp had killed all his older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king.
Amos 1:1These are the things concerning Israel that Amos, one of the shepherds in Tekoa, received in revelation. He received these things in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and also in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash 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 →