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and great stones: and his name went forth because he was a leper: and Joatham his son
far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had reigned in his stead.
strengthened him.
16 But when he was made strong, his heart
was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected
the Lord his God: and going into the temple of Chapter 27
the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon
the altar of incense.
Joatham was five and twenty years old when he
17 And immediately Azarias the priest going
in after him, and with him fourscore priests of began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jerusa
the Lord, most valiant men,
the daughter of Sadoc.
18 Withstood the king and said: It doth not
belong to thee, Ozias, to burn incense to the 2 And he did that which was right before the
Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons of Lord, according to all that Ozias his father had
Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go done, only that he entered not into the temple
out of the sanctuary, do not despise: for this of the Lord, and the people still transgressed.
thing shall not be accounted to thy glory by the 3 He built the high gate of the house of the
Lord God. Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
19 And Ozias was angry, and holding in his
4 Moreover he built cities in the mountains of
hand the censer to burn incense, threatened the
Juda, and castles and towers in the forests.
priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in his
forehead before the priests, in the house of the 5 He fought against the king of the children of
Lord at the altar of incense. Ammon, and overcame them, and the children of
20 And Azarias the high priest, and all the Ammon gave him at that time a hundred talents
rest of the priests looked upon him, and saw the of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat,
leprosy in his forehead, and they made haste to and as many measures of barley: so much did
thrust him out. Yea himself also being fright- the children of Ammon give him in the second
ened, hasted to go out, because he had quickly and third year.
felt the stroke of the Lord. 6 And Joatham was strengthened, because he
21 And Ozias the king was a leper unto the had his way directed before the Lord his God.
day of his death, and he dwelt in a house apart
7 Now the rest of the acts of Joatham, and all
being full of the leprosy, for which he had been
his wars, and his works, are written in the book
cast out of the house of the Lord. And Joatham
of the kings of Israel and Juda.
his son governed the king’s house, and judged
the people of the land. 8 He was five and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in
22 But the rest of the acts of Ozias first and
last were written by Isaias the son of Amos, the Jerusalem.
prophet. 9 And Joatham slept with his fathers, and
23 And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they they buried him in the city of David: and Achaz
buried him in the field of the royal sepulchres, his son reigned in his stead.