These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
2 Chronicles 26
Tanakh 23 verses
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And all the people of took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him in the room of his father Amaziah.
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He built Eloth, and restored it to , after that the slept with his fathers.
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Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in ; and his mother’s was Jecoliah of .
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And he did that, which was right in the eyes of , according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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- 5 And he set himself to seek in the days of , who had understanding in the of ; and as long as he sought , made him to prosper.
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And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in [the country of] Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
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- 7 And helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
- 8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah; and his spread abroad even to the entrance of ; for he waxed exceeding strong.
- 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them.
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And be built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the Lowland also, and in the table-land; and he had husbandmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry.
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Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.
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- 12 The whole number of the heads of fathers’ houses, even the mighty men of valour, was two thousand and six hundred.
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And under their hand was a trained army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the against the enemy.
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And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
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And he made in engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers and upon the corners, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones. And his spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
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- 16 But when he was strong, his was lifted up so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against his ; for he went into the of to burn incense upon the of incense.
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And Azariah the went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of , that were valiant men;
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- 18 and they withstood Uzziah the , and said unto him: ‘It pertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto , but to the priests the sons of that are consecrated it pertaineth to burn incense; go out of the ; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thy from .’
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Then Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of , beside the of incense.
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And Azariah the chief , and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from thence; yea, himself made haste also to go out, because had smitten him.
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And Uzziah the was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a house set apart, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of ; and Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
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Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did the , the son of Amoz, write.
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So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said: ‘He is a leper’; and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
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