2 Chronicles 26:16–21

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. 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. ²¹So King Uzziah was diseased to the time of his death. ^bHe lived in quarantine ^cdwith a serious skin disease and was excluded from access to the Lord’s temple, while his son Jotham was over the king’s household governing the people of the land.