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Matthew Henry

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 26:20

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 26:20

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 26:22

The rest of the acts of Uzziah , first and last , did Isaiah the prophet - write - This work, however, is totally lost; for we have not any history of this king in the writings of Isaiah. He is barely mentioned, Isaiah 1:1 ; Isaiah 6:1 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Chronicles 26:23

They buried him - in the field of the burial - As he was a leper, he was not permitted to be buried in the common burial-place of the kings; as it was supposed that even a place of sepulture must be defiled by the body of one who had died of this most afflictive and dangerous malady. read more

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