Event
Reign of Uzziah
- Date:
- 809 BC
- Duration:
- 52Y
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- 2 Kings 15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
- 2 Kings 15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 15:3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
- 2 Kings 15:4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- 2 Kings 15:5 And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
- 2 Kings 15:6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 15:7 So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.