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2 ChroniquesChapitre 26

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Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
He rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah after the king had rested with his fathers.
Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah, of Jerusalem.
He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
He went out and made war against the Philistines, and he broke down the walls of Gath, the walls of Jabneh, and the walls of Ashdod. Then he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and among the Philistines.
God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.
The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had grown very strong.
Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them.
He also built towers in the wilderness and dug many cisterns, for he had large herds both in the foothills and on the plain. He had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile fields, for he loved the soil.
Uzziah had an army trained for war, ready to go out in companies according to the number mustered by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king's commanders.
The total number of the heads of families, mighty warriors all, was 2,600.
Under their command was an army of 307,500 trained for war, a powerful force to support the king against his enemies.
Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and slingstones.
In Jerusalem he made machines, designed by skilled men, to be placed on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and hurl large stones. His fame spread far and wide, for he was marvelously helped until he became strong.
But when he had become strong, his heart grew proud, to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of the LORD, courageous men.
They confronted King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful, and you will have no honor from the LORD God."
Then Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand to burn incense, became enraged. And while he raged at the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, beside the altar of incense.
When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned toward him and saw the leprosy on his forehead, they rushed him out of there. He himself hurried to leave, because the LORD had struck him.
King Uzziah remained a leper until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, a leper, cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham was in charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
The rest of the acts of Uzziah, from beginning to end, were recorded by the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
Uzziah rested with his fathers, and they buried him near his fathers in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, "He was a leper." And his son Jotham became king in his place.
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