Uzziah in Smiths Bible Dictionary
(strength of Jehovah).
1. King of Judah B.C. 809-8 to 757-6. In some
passages his name appears in the lengthened form Azariah:
After the murder of Amaziah, his son Uzziah was chosen by
the people, at the age of sixteen, to occupy the vacant
throne; and for the greater part of his long reign of fifty-
two years he lived in the fear of God, and showed himself a
wise, active and pious ruler. He never deserted the worship
of the true God, and was much influenced by Zechariah, a
prophet who is mentioned only in connection with him. 2Ch
26:5 So the southern kingdom was raised to a condition of
prosperity which it had not known since the death of
Solomon. The end of Uzziah was less prosperous than his
beginning. Elated with his splendid career, he determined to
burn incense on the altar of God, but was opposed by the
high priest Azariah and eighty others. See Ex 30:7,8; Nu
16:40; 18:7 The king was enraged at their resistance, and,
as he pressed forward with his censer was suddenly smitten
with leprosy. This lawless attempt to burn incense was the
only exception to the excellence of his administration. 2Ch
27:2 Uzziah was buried "with his fathers," yet apparently
not actually in the royal sepulchres. 2Ch 26:23 During his
reign a great earthquake occurred. Am 1:1; Zec 14:5
2. A Kohathite Levite, and ancestor of Samuel. 1Ch
6:24 (9).
3. A priest of the sons of Harim, who had taken a
foreign wife in the days of Ezra. Ezr 10:21 (B.C. 458.)
4. Father of Athaiah or Uthai. Ne 11:4
5. Father of Jehonathan, one of David's overseers.
1Ch 27:25 (B.C. about 1053.)
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