2 Tawarikh 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, ¹  who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Tawarikh 26:9

26:9 Uzziah built and fortified towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, Valley Gate, and at the Angle. ² 

2 Tawarikh 26:14

26:14 Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.

2 Tawarikh 26:22

26:22 The rest of the events of Uzziah’s reign, from start to finish, were recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. ³ 

2 Tawarikh 27:2

27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. ⁴  (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) ⁵  Yet the people were still sinning.

2 Tawarikh 26:8

26:8 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah and his fame reached ⁶  the border of Egypt, for he grew in power.

[26:1]  ¹ tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

[26:9]  ² tn On the meaning of the Hebrew word מִקְצוֹעַ (miqtsoa’), see HALOT 628 s.v. עַ(וֹ)מִקְצֹ. The term probably refers to an “angle” or “corner” somewhere on the eastern wall of Jerusalem.

[26:22]  ³ tn Heb “As for the rest of the events of Uzziah, the former and the latter, Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, recorded.”

[27:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

[27:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

[26:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “and his name went to.”