2 Chronicles 26:16-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:16-23

Here is the only blot we find on the name of king Uzziah, and it is such a one as lies not on any other of the kings. Whoredom, murder, oppression, persecution, and especially idolatry, gave characters to the bad kings and some of them blemishes to the good ones, David himself not excepted, witness the matter of Uriah. But we find not Uzziah charged with any of these; and yet he transgressed against the Lord his God, and fell under the marks of his displeasure in consequence, not, as other... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:16

When he was strong ,.... Became great and powerful, through his victories, the enlargement of his dominions, and having a numerous army, and these well accoutred, and many fortified cities and towers: his heart was lifted up to his destruction ; he grew vain and proud, elated with his flourishing circumstances, which issued in his ruin: for he transgressed against the Lord his God ; who had helped him, and made him so great, and had bestowed so many favours upon him; the Targum... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:17

And Azariah the priest went in after him ,.... To hinder him from doing it, and to persuade him to go out. This was the high priest, as appears from 2 Chronicles 26:20 and is thought to be the same that is spoken of in 1 Chronicles 6:10 . and with him eighty priests of the Lord, that were valiant men ; not only able bodied men, but men of spirit and courage, and zealous for the honour of God. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:18

And they withstood Uzziah the king ,.... They not only stood against him, but stood about him, surrounded him, so as to hinder him from approaching the altar of incense: and said unto him, it appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord ; it did not belong to his office as a king, it was no part of it but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense ; and to them only; for even the Levites might not do it, only those of the tribe of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:19

Then Uzziah was wroth ,.... With the priests, and, as Josephus F2 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 10. sect. 4. 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 Lord, from beside the incense altar ; which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:20

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 thence ; the holy place, he being now unfit to be in a common dwelling house, or his own palace, and much less to be in the house of God: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:21

And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper ,.... See Gill 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 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:22

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 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:23

So Uzziah slept with his fathers ,.... Died as they did, the same year, according to Dr. Lightfoot F5 Works, vol. 1. p. 99. , 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 Gill on 2 Kings 15:7 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 26:16

He transgressed against the Lord - "He sinned against the Word of the Lord his God." - T. Went into the temple to burn incense - Thus assuming to himself the priest's office. See this whole transaction explained in the notes on 2 Kings 15:5 ; (note). read more

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