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All the people of Judah took
Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king. He did that which
was right in the sight of the Lord
2 Chronicles 26:1 Then all the people of Judah took
Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his
father Amaziah.
2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king
slept with his fathers.
3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he
reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah of
Jerusalem.
4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord,
according to all that his father Amaziah did.
5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had
understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he
sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.
6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and
brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the
wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and
against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Mehunims.
8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread
abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself
exceedingly.
9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate,
and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much
cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine
dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out
to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel
the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's
captains.
12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were
two thousand and six hundred.
13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand
and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king
against the enemy.
14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and
helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.
15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the
towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his
name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was
strong.
16 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.
17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of
the Lord, that were valiant men:
18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It
appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to
the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go
out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall
it be for thine honour from the Lord God.
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Before Christ was crucify, only the priest could
go into the temple to burn incense.
19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and
while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his
forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, from beside the
incense altar.
20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and,
behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence;
yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the Lord had smitten him.
21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death,
and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the
house of the Lord: and Jotham his son was over the king's house,
judging the people of the land.
22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet,
the son of Amoz, write.
23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the
field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper:
and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
•
The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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