2 Chronicles 26:12–19

¹²The total number of heads of families was 2,600 brave warriors. ¹³Under their authority was an army of 307,500 equipped for combat, a powerful force to help the king against the enemy. ^t14Uzziah provided the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows and slingstones. ¹⁵He made skillfully designed devices in Jerusalem to shoot arrows and catapult large stones for use on the towers and on the corners. So his fame spread even to distant places, for he was marvelously helped until he became strong.

Uzziah’s Disease

¹⁶But when he became strong, he grew arrogant ^uand 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. ^v17Azariah ^wthe priest, along with 80 brave priests of the Lord, went in after him. ¹⁸They took their stand ^xagainst King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the Lord ^y—only the consecrated priests, the descendants of Aaron, have the right to offer incense. ^zLeave 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 disease ^abroke out on his forehead.