And he wentforth and warredagainst the Philistines, and brakedown the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and builtcitiesaboutAshdod, and among the Philistines.
Also he builttowers in the desert, and diggedmanywells: for he had muchcattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmenalso, and vinedressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he lovedhusbandry.
MoreoverUzziah had an host of fighting men, thatwent out to war by bands, according to the number of theiraccount by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’scaptains.
And undertheirhand was an army, threehundredthousand and seventhousand and fivehundred, thatmade war withmightypower, to help the kingagainst the enemy.
And he made in Jerusalemengines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shootarrows and greatstoneswithal. And his namespread far abroad; for he was marvellouslyhelped, till he was strong.
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressedagainst the LORD his God, and wentinto the temple of the LORD to burnincenseupon the altar of incense.
And theywithstoodUzziah the king, and saidunto him, It appertaineth not untothee, Uzziah, to burnincenseunto the LORD, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burnincense: go out of the sanctuary; for thouhasttrespassed; neithershall it be for thinehonourfrom the LORD God.
ThenUzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burnincense: and while he was wrothwith the priests, the leprosyevenrose up in his foreheadbefore the priests in the house of the LORD, frombeside the incensealtar.
And Azariah the chiefpriest, and all the priests, lookedupon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and theythrust him out fromthence; yea, himselfhastedalso to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
And Uzziah the king was a leperunto the day of his death, and dwelt in a severalhouse, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king’shouse, judging the people of the land.
So Uzziahsleptwith his fathers, and theyburied him with his fathers in the field of the burialwhichbelonged to the kings; for theysaid, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.