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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.  
20 And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and there, on his forehead, he was leprous; so they thrust him out of that place. Indeed he also ahurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him.  
21 aKing Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He dwelt in an bisolated house, because he was a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord. Then Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.  
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, from first to last, athe prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz wrote.  
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John Wesley's Notes
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2 Chronicles 26:18

Withstood - Heb. stood up against Uzziah, not by force, or laying hands upon him to restrain him, for in the next verse you still find the censer in his hand; but only by admonition and reproof, which follows. Neither, etc. - Expect that God will punish thee, or put some brand of infamy upon thee for this presumption. But this they express modestly, because they considered that he to whom they spake, though an offender, was their sovereign.


 
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