Study it in the app“Uzziah the king was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house, leprous, for he was cut off from the house of YHWH; and Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land.”
Uzziahעֻזִּיָּהוּthe kingהַמֶּלֶךְwasוַיְהִיleprousמְצֹרָעuntilעַדthe dayיוֹםof his death,מוֹתוֹand he livedוַיֵּשֶׁבin a separateהַחָפְשִׁיתhouse,בֵּיתleprous,מְצֹרָעforכִּיhe was cut offנִגְזַרfrom the houseמִבֵּיתof YHWH;יְהוָהand Jothamוְיוֹתָםhis sonבְּנוֹwas overעַלthe houseבֵּיתof the king,הַמֶּלֶךְjudgingשׁוֹפֵטthe peopleאֶת עַםof the land.הָאָרֶץ
Uzziah
Uzziah: a name meaning "my strength is YHWH." Another name of King Azariah of Judah (2 Kings 15:13, 30, 32; Isaiah 6:1); other men also bear it (1 Chronicles 6:24; Ezra 10:21).
Where else “uziyahu” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsbecome
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yehi” appearshave leprosy
Have tsaraat ("leprosy"): a skin disease that made a person unclean (Leviticus 13). It is not exactly the disease called leprosy today.
Where else “metsora” appearsday
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appearsdeath
The end of life: when someone stops breathing and returns to dust.
Where else “mot” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yeshev” appearsseparateness
A word found only in the phrase "house of freedom" or "separate house" (2 Kings 15:5; 2 Chronicles 26:21), where King Azariah lived when he became leprous. Its exact sense is not known: the lexicon thinks of a place of separation because of sickness.
Where else “chafshit” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearscut off
To be shut off, excluded.
Where else “nigzar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsJotham
Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, the only one who escaped the slaughter of his brothers. Later a king of Judah bore the same name (2 Kings 15:32). It means "YHWH is perfect."
Where else “yotam” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appearsjudge
To judge and do justice, defend the weak.
Where else “shofet” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearsOther books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
The reign of Uzziah
An account told more fully or more briefly in one of the books.
2 Chronicles 26:1-23
1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, and he was sixteen years old, and they made him king in place of his father Amaziah. 2He built Eloth and brought it back to Judah, after the king lay down with his fathers. 3Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 4He did what was right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that Amaziah his father had done. 5He set himself to seek Elohim in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of Elohim; and in the days that he sought YHWH, Elohim made him prosper. 6He went out and fought against the Philistines, and made a breach in the wall of Gath and in the wall of Jabneh and in the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines. 7Elohim helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites. 8The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his name went as far as the entrance of Egypt, for he had become strong exceedingly. 9Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem on the Corner Gate and on the Valley Gate and on the angle, and fortified them. 10He built towers in the wilderness and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and in the plain, and he had farmers and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fertile fields, for he loved the ground. 11Uzziah had a force that made war, going out to the army by bands, according to the number of their count, by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the supervisor, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the commanders of the king. 12The whole number of the heads of the fathers’ houses, of the mighty men of valor, was two thousand six hundred. 13And under their direction was an army force of three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, who made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy. 14Uzziah prepared for them, for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slings. 15He made in Jerusalem devices, the invention of an inventor, to be on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and large stones. And his name went out far, for he was marvelously helped until he was strong. 16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his own destruction; he was unfaithful to YHWH his Elohim, and went into the temple of YHWH to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of YHWH, valiant men. 18They stood against Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to YHWH, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful, and this will not be for your honor from YHWH Elohim.” 19Uzziah was enraged, and in his hand was a censer to burn incense; and when he was enraged with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of YHWH, beside the altar of incense. 20Azariah the head priest and all the priests turned toward him, and look, he was leprous on his forehead. They rushed him out of there, and he himself also hurried to go out, because YHWH had struck him. 21Uzziah the king was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house, leprous, for he was cut off from the house of YHWH; and Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land. 22The rest of the acts of Uzziah, the first and the last, Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, wrote. 23Uzziah lay down with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial that belonged to the kings, for they said, “He is leprous.” And Jotham his son reigned in his place.
1In year twenty-seven of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king. 2He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 3He did what was right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that Amaziah his father had done. 4Only the high places did not go away; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. 5YHWH struck the king, and he was a leper until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house; and Jotham the son of the king was over the house, judging the people of the land. 6The 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? 7Azariah lay down with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
20Azariah the head priest and all the priests turned toward him, and look, he was leprous on his forehead. They rushed him out of there, and he himself also hurried to go out, because YHWH had struck him.
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22The rest of the acts of Uzziah, the first and the last, Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, wrote.
