When it burned it made a sweet perfume in the temple and even outside for a distance. It was burned morning and evening, and seemed to mean prayer, praise, and thanksgiving to God. It was a very wrong thing for anyone but the right ones to burn the incense. Only certain ones — the priests, the sons of Aaron — were permitted to do this. Azariah, the chief priest, and 80 other priests also went into the Temple that day. They told King Uzziah that he had no right to burn incense unto the Lord; it was not his place to do so.
They told him to go out, that he had done a wrong thing. This made the king very angry. He perhaps thought that because he was the king he could do anything he pleased. While he stood there, the dreadful disease of leprosy rose up in his forehead. All the priests looked at him and saw that he was a leper. They sent him out at once, and he hurried to go out of the Temple. He knew that he had done wrong and was being punished for it.
He was a leper the rest of his life and had to live by himself, away from other people. His last days must have been very sad. We have learned in other lessons that the disease of leprosy on the body, is like sin in the heart.
It grows bigger and more terrible all the time. Perhaps it begins with just a very small spot, but gradually it spreads and goes deeper into the flesh.
That is the way with sin. But it soon grows bigger and bigger; and unless the Blood of jesus takes it out of the heart it will kill the body and send the soul away from God forever. The entire nation knew their King was doing wrong.
All of his successes were eclipsed by folly! He thought he was superior to God in deciding how the worship was to be conducted. As long as you are proud you cannot know God. Lewis, Mere Christianity. Uzziah believed himself to be bigger than God. His pride prevented him from being buried with the previous Kings of Judah. Blessed Success can be lost by the subtle sin of pride, self-sufficiency, and self-willed religion.
Godly Success can be sacrificed for Self and eternity be spent in a miserable destiny. What instruction from God will prevent us from ruining success as King Uzziah did? Joshua Notice how repulsed our Father in Heaven is by arrogant pride cf Pr Copyright by John L. Kachelman, Jr. His son Jotham was put in charge of the royal palace, and he governed the people of the land.
English Standard Version And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.
King James Bible And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. He dwelt in an isolated house, because he was a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD. New American Standard Bible King Uzziah had leprosy to the day of his death; and he lived in a separate house, afflicted as he was with leprosy, for he was cut off from the house of the LORD.
Amplified Bible King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death; and, being a leper, he lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the LORD. American Standard Version And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land. Brenton Septuagint Translation And Ozias the king was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt as a leper in a separate house; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Joathan his son was set over his kingdom, judging the people of the land.
Contemporary English Version Uzziah had leprosy the rest of his life. He was no longer allowed in the temple or in his own palace.
That's why his son Jotham lived there and ruled in his place. And Uzziah prepared for all the army shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.
In Jerusalem he made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense.
And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him. And King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. First question we want to ask is who was King Uzziah.
Uzziah reigned as king over Judah from to B. Uzziah was anointed king by the people of Judah at the young age of 16, likely when his father King Amaziah was still a prisoner of Israel and the north.
King Uzziah co-reigned with his father for 25 years, from to B. This left Uzziah only 17 years of a sole reign of Judah. Nevertheless, Uzziah was considered a great king in Judah. It only mentions that the Lord afflicted Uzziah with leprosy until the day he died. In verses 2 to 15 the chronicler provides us a substantial list of achievements that made King Uzziah great. The first is listed in verse 2.
Eloth was an important seaport in Edom, and it gave access to trade with the east. It had been used by Solomon but had been lost during the reign of Jehoram over years earlier. In verses 6 through 8 we see more international achievements of Uzziah. He took on several long-term enemies of Judah, the Philistines, the Arabs, the Meunites, and he defeated them all. These were the sorts of things we remember reading of Solomon.
These were the sorts of things that were said of Solomon in his own generation. He built towers in Jerusalem, at several of the gates entering the city. He built towers in the wilderness, in the foothills, and coastal plains around Jerusalem. He also constructed many cisterns for water retention for the large herds of livestock that he owned. The towers Uzziah built in Jerusalem and all around Judah provided fortification and protection for royal workers as well as storage.
He had a well-trained army that was highly ordered with capable leaders. This was no simple militia. It was a large army of , who could make war with mighty power. Add to that Uzziah made very significant provisions for his army. In biblical times it was typical for soldiers to provide their own weapons. The writer mentions that Uzziah made shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows and stones for slinging for every soldier. Uzziah also had what the ESV calls engines invented by skillful men to be used on the towers to shoot arrows and great stones.
Sproul would conclude that Uzziah was one of the great kings of Judah. We read in verse 4 that Uzziah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. This is one of two typical assessments of the kings of Judah and Israel from both Chronicles and Kings.
The other typical summary assessment rendered for a king is he did evil in the eyes of the lord. During the divided monarchy after Solomon, there were 20 kings in the northern tribes and 20 kings of Judah.
It is sad, but not one of the kings of the northern tribes were assessed as kings who had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord. And of the 20 kings of Judah, only eight were assessed positively, and most of them had qualified positive assessments. What a sad legacy of leadership for Judah and Israel. That puts Uzziah in a more positive light.
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