1.Amaziah was twenty five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
2.He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but not wholeheartedly.
3.After the kingdom was firmly in his control, he executed the officials who had murdered his father the king.
4.Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted in accordance with what is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where the Lord commanded: "Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sins."
5.Amaziah called the people of Judah together and assinged them according to their families to commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. He then mustered those twenty years old or more and found that there were three hundred thousand men ready for military service, able to handle the spear and shield.
6.He also hired a hundred thousand fighting men from Israel for a hundred talents of silver.
7.But a man of God came to him and said, "O king, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the Lord is not with Israel- not with any of the people of Ephraim.
8.Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow."
9.Amaziah asked the man of God, "But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?"
The man of God replied, "The Lord can give you much more than that."
10.So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left the wall, and he fortified them.
10.He also built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, because he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain. He had people working his fields and vineyards in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil.
11.Uzziah had a well-trained army, ready to go out by divisions according to their numbers as mustered by Jeiel the secretary and Maaseiah the officers under the direction of Hananiah, one of the royal officials.
12.The total number of family leaders over the fighting men was 2,600.
13.Under their command was an army of 307,500 men trained for war, a powerful forec to support the king against his enemies.
14.Uzziah provided shields, spears, helmets, coats of armor, bows and slingstones for the entire army.
15.In Jerusalem he made machines designed by skillful men for use on the towers and on the corner defenses to shoot arrows and hurl large stones. His fame spread far and wide, for he was greatly helped until he became powerful.
16.But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar on incense.
17.Azariah the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the Lord followed him in.
18.They confronted him and said, "It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the Lord God."19.Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
20.When Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him, they saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the Lord had afflicted him.
21.King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separated house- leprous, and excluded from the temple of the Lord. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
22.The other events of Uzziah's reign, from beginning to end, are recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
23.Uzziah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in a field forburial that belonged to the kings, for people said, "He had leprosy." And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.
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