¹⁶But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride^q led to his downfall.^r He was unfaithful^s to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense^t on the altar of incense. ¹⁷Azariah^u the priest with eighty other courageous priests of the Lord followed him in. ¹⁸They confronted King Uzziah and said, “It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priests,^v the descendants^w of Aaron,^x who have been consecrated to burn incense.^y Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the Lord God.”

¹⁹Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord’s temple, leprosy^c^z broke out on his forehead. ²⁰When Azariah the chief priest and all the other priests looked at him, they saw that he had leprosy on his forehead, so they hurried him out. Indeed, he himself was eager to leave, because the Lord had afflicted him.

²¹King Uzziah had leprosy until the day he died. He lived in a separate house^d^a—leprous, and banned from the temple of the Lord. Jotham his son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.

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Footnotes

cThe Hebrew for leprosy was used for various diseases affecting the skin; also in verses 20, 21 and 23.
dOr in a house where he was relieved of responsibilities

Cross references

qSee 2 Ki 14:10
r Dt 32:15
sSee 1 Ch 5:25
t 2 Ki 16:12
uSee 1 Ki 4:2
v Nu 16:39
w Nu 18:1–7
xSee Ex 30:7
ySee 1 Ch 6:49
zSee Nu 12:10
aSee Ex 4:6; Lev 13:46; See 14:8; Nu 5:2; See 19:12