2 Chronicles 26:20 - Exposition

They thrust him out. This hiph. conjugation of kal בָּהַל does not point to the force adopted, but to the trembling anxiety with which, for horror's sake of such a monstrous catastrophe, as a leper by the altar and with a censer in his hand, etc; the priests urged him out. Evidently, from the next clause, no great force in the ordinary sense was needed. Yea, himself hasted . The Hebrew verb is niph. conjugation of דָחַף . It is interesting to note that this root occurs only here and three times in Esther, viz. Esther 3:15 ; Esther 6:12 ; Esther 8:14 . Uzziah can scarcely have been ignorant that he had been daring the utmost penalty of the Law ( Numbers 16:31 , Numbers 16:35 ; Numbers 18:7 ).