Reign of Uzziah
809 BCfor 52Y
Relationships
Participants Uzziah
Locations Jerusalem
Preceded by Reign of Jeroboam I
Part of Southern Kingdom (Judah)
Key verses
2 Kings 15:5
Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
2 Kings 15:4
However the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 15:1
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Kings 15:7
Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 15:3
He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 15:6
Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?