2 Chronicles 26:19-21 NIV

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 26:19

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 26:20

Because the Lord had smitten him - "Because the Word of the Lord had brought the plague upon him." - T. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 26:21

And dwelt in a several house - He was separated, because of the infectious nature of his disorder, from all society, domestic, civil, and religious. Jotham - was over the king ' s house - He became regent of the land; his father being no longer able to perform the functions of the regal office. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:1-23

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:1-23

The reign of fifty-two years spoiled in an hour. Many a reign, indeed, was a spoiled reign which had begun well, promised well, and continued well for some length, of time. But the reign of Uzziah, of all the reigns of Judah and of Israel the longest with the one exception of that of Manasseh, and particularly full of prosperity, and remarkably varied prosperity within, of success in just foreign wars, and of that which led to these things, viz. the most gracious tokens of the Divine... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:16-21

A clouded close. We could have wished that the end of Uzziah's life had answered to the beginning; that a reign which began so well, which had so commendable and even distinguished a record, bad closed in light and honour. But it was not to be. That powerful temptation which assails the strong and the victorious proved too powerful for the Hebrew king; he fell beneath its force, and he paid a heavy penalty for his fall. We have— I. A PAINFUL SPECTACLE in the person of a leprous... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:16-23

Uzziah the leprous. I. UZZIAH 'S TRANSGRESSION . Pride. "His heart was lifted up." This the inevitable tendency of too much material and temporal prosperity ( Deuteronomy 8:13 , Deuteronomy 8:14 ). Exemplified in Amaziah ( 2 Chronicles 25:18 , 2 Chronicles 25:19 ; 2 Kings 14:9 ), Sennacherib ( 2 Chronicles 32:31 ; 2 Kings 18:19-35 ), Nebuchadnezzar ( Daniel 4:30-34 ; Daniel 5:20 ). 2 . The nature of it. "He went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense... read more

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

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

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 26:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 26:21

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:16-21

The Pulpit Commentary - 2 Chronicles 26:16-23

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