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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 26 This chapter relates the good reign of Uzziah, 2 Chronicles 26:1, his wars and victories, his buildings, the number of his soldiers, and his military stores, 2 Chronicles 26:6, his invasion of the priest's office, in attempting to offer incense, for which he was smitten with a leprosy, which continued to his death, 2 Chronicles 26:16.
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 his forehead before the priests in the house of the...
Matthew Henry
This chapter gives us an account of the reign of Uzziah (Azariah he was called in the Kings) more fully than we had it before, though it was long, and in some respects illustrious, yet it was very briefly related, 2 Kings xiv. 21; xv. 1, &c. Here is, I. His good character in general, ver. 1-5. II. His great prosperity in his wars, his buildings, and all the affairs of his kingdom, ver. 6-15. III....