2 Chronicles 26:16–20

UZZIAH’S DISEASE

¹⁶But when he became strong, he grew arrogant,^c and it led to his own destruction. He acted unfaithfully against the Lord his God by going into the Lord’s sanctuary to burn incense on the incense altar.^{d 17}The priest Azariah,^e along with eighty brave priests of the Lord, went in after him. ¹⁸They took their stand^f against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the Lord^g—only the consecrated priests, the descendants of Aaron, have the right to offer incense.^h Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully! You will not receive honor from the Lord God.”

¹⁹Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the Lord’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin diseaseⁱ broke out on his forehead. ²⁰Then Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him and saw that he was diseased on his forehead. They rushed him out of there. He himself also hurried to get out because the Lord had afflicted him.