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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then Uzziah was wroth,.... With the priests, and, as Josephus (b) says, threatened to kill them: and had a censer in his hand to burn incense; ready to do it, and resolved upon it: and while he was wroth with the priests; and expressing his indignation, and do what he would do to them, if they continued to oppose him: the leprosy even rose up in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead,.... He was leprous all over his body, no doubt, but it appeared in his forehead very remarkably, and was seen by them all, who, without doubt, informed him of his case, and of which he soon became sensible: and they thrust him out from...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper,.... [See comments on 2 Kings 15:5], for he was cut off from the house of the Lord; not, suffered to enter into that, because of his uncleanness: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land; see 2 Kings 15:5.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last,.... What were done by him, both in the beginning and latter end of his reign: did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write: not in his own prophecy, but in the history of his own times, which was usual for every prophet to write, though now lost, see 2 Kings 15:6.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
So Uzziah slept with his fathers,.... Died as they did, the same year, according to Dr. Lightfoot (e), in which he was smitten with the leprosy; and in the year of his death it was Isaiah had the vision related in Isaiah 6:1, c. and they buried him with his fathers [See comments on 2 Kings 15:7]. (e) Works, vol. 1. p. 99.