II Chronicles 26 · דברי הימים ב

Then all the people of Yehuda took ῾Uzziyyahu, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amażyahu.

He built Elot, and restored it to Yehuda, after the king slept with his fathers.

Sixteen years old was ῾Uzziyyahu when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty two years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Yekholya of Yerushalayim.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amażyahu had done.

And he sought God in the days of Zekharyahu, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.

And he went forth and warred against the Pelishtim, and broke down the wall of Gat, and the wall of Yavne, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Pelishtim.

And God helped him against the Pelishtim, and against the ῾Arvim who dwelt in Gur-ba῾al, and the Me῾unim.

And the ῾Ammonim rendered tribute to ῾Uzziyyahu, and his name spread abroad to the entrance of Miżrayim; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.

Moreover ῾Uzziyyahu built towers in Yerushalayim, at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the angle of the wall, and fortified them.

And he built towers in the desert, and dug many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the lowland, and in the plains: he had farmers, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in the Karmel: for he loved the soil.

Moreover ῾Uzziyyahu had a host of fighting men, who went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Ye῾i᾽el the scribe and Ma῾aseyahu the ruler, under the hand of Ḥananyahu, one of the king’s captains.

The whole number of the heads of the fathers’ houses of the mighty men at arms was two thousand six hundred.

And under their hand was an army, three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

And ῾Uzziyyahu prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.

And in Yerushalayim he made engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

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.

And ῾Azaryahu the priest went in after him and with him eighty priests of the Lord, who were men of valour:

and they withstood ῾Uzziyyahu the king, and said to him, It is not for thee, ῾Uzziyyahu, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests the sons of Aharon, who are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; for it shall not be for thy honour from the Lord God.

Then ῾Uzziyyahu was angry, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was angry with the priests, the żara῾at broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar.

And ῾Azaryahu the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was diseased in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; and he himself hastened to go out, because the Lord had smitten him.

And ῾Uzziyyahu the king was afflicted with żara῾at to the day of his death, and dwelt in the house of separation, being diseased; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Yotam his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

Now the rest of the acts of ῾Uzziyyahu, first and last, did Yesha῾yahu the prophet, the son of Amoż, write.

So ῾Uzziyyahu slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is diseased: and Yotam his son reigned in his stead.