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14 Then Uzziah prepared for them, for the entire army, shields, spears, helmets, body armor, bows, and slings to cast stones.
15 And he made devices in Jerusalem, invented by askillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was marvelously helped till he became strong.  

The Penalty for Uzziah’s Pride

16 But awhen he was strong his heart was blifted up, to his destruction, for he transgressed against the Lord his God cby entering the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.  
17 So aAzariah the priest went in after him, and with him were eighty priests of the Lord—valiant men.  
18 And they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, “It ais not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the bpriests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed! You shall have no honor from the Lord God.”  
19 Then Uzziah became furious; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense. And while he was angry with the priests, aleprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar.  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Chronicles 26:16-21

HE INVADES THE PRIEST'S OFFICE, AND IS SMITTEN WITH LEPROSY. (II Chronicles 26:16-21)

he transgressed against the Lord, etc.—(See on II Kings 15:5). This daring and wicked act is in both records traced to the intoxicating influence of overweening pride and vanity. But here the additional circumstances are stated, that his entrance was opposed, and strong remonstrances made (I Chronicles 6:10) by the high priest, who was accompanied by eighty inferior priests. Rage and threats were the only answers he deigned to return, but God took care to vindicate the sacredness of the priestly office. At the moment the king lifted the censer, He struck him with leprosy. The earthquake mentioned (Amos 1:1) is said to have been felt at the moment [JOSEPHUS].




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