_THEN ALL THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH TOOK UZZIAH, WHO WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD, AND MADE HIM KING IN THE ROOM OF HIS FATHER AMAZIAH._ Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah - (see the notes at 2 Kings 14:21; 2 Kings 15:1.)... [ Continue Reading ]
_HE BUILT ELOTH, AND RESTORED IT TO JUDAH, AFTER THAT THE KING SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS._ He built Eloth - or, 'He it was who built Eloth.' The account of the fortifications of this port on the Red Sea, which Uzziah restored to the kingdom of Judah (2 Chronicles 33:13), is placed before the chronolog... [ Continue Reading ]
_SIXTEEN YEARS OLD WAS UZZIAH WHEN HE BEGAN TO REIGN, AND HE REIGNED FIFTY AND TWO YEARS IN JERUSALEM. HIS MOTHER'S NAME ALSO WAS JECOLIAH OF JERUSALEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SOUGHT GOD IN THE DAYS OF ZECHARIAH, WHO HAD UNDERSTANDING IN THE VISIONS OF GOD: AND AS LONG_ _ AND HE SOUGHT GOD IN THE DAYS OF ZECHARIAH, WHO HAD UNDERSTANDING IN THE VISIONS OF GOD: AND AS LONG AS HE SOUGHT THE LORD, GOD MADE HIM TO PROSPER._ He sought God in the days of Zechariah - a w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE WENT FORTH AND WARRED AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, AND BRAKE DOWN THE WALL OF GATH, AND THE WALL OF JABNEH, AND THE WALL OF ASHDOD, AND BUILT CITIES ABOUT ASHDOD, AND AMONG THE PHILISTINES._ Went forth and warred against the Philistines. He overcame them in many engagements dismantled their tow... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD HELPED HIM AGAINST THE PHILISTINES, AND AGAINST THE ARABIANS THAT DWELT IN GURBAAL, AND THE MEHUNIMS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE AMMONITES GAVE GIFTS TO UZZIAH: AND HIS NAME SPREAD ABROAD EVEN TO THE ENTERING IN OF EGYPT; FOR HE STRENGTHENED HIMSELF EXCEEDINGLY._ The Ammonites gave gifts. The countries east of the Jordan became tributary to him, and by the rapid succession and extent of his victories his kingdom ext... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER UZZIAH BUILT TOWERS IN JERUSALEM AT THE CORNER GATE, AND AT THE VALLEY GATE, AND AT THE TURNING OF THE WALL, AND FORTIFIED THEM._ Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem ... - whence resistance could be made or missiles discharged against assailants. The sites of the principal of these towers we... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALSO HE BUILT TOWERS IN THE DESERT, AND DIGGED MANY WELLS: FOR HE HAD MUCH CATTLE, BOTH IN THE LOW COUNTRY, AND IN THE PLAINS: HUSBANDMEN ALSO, AND VINE DRESSERS IN THE MOUNTAINS, AND IN CARMEL: FOR HE LOVED HUSBANDRY._ Also he built towers in the desert - for the threefold purpose of defense, of... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOREOVER UZZIAH HAD AN HOST OF FIGHTING MEN, THAT WENT OUT TO WAR BY BANDS, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THEIR ACCOUNT BY THE HAND OF JEIEL THE SCRIBE AND MAASEIAH THE RULER, UNDER THE HAND OF HANANIAH, ONE OF THE KING'S CAPTAINS._ AN HOST OF FIGHTING MEN, THAT WENT OUT TO WAR BY BANDS. He raised a s... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE WHOLE NUMBER OF THE CHIEF OF THE FATHERS OF THE MIGHTY MEN OF VALOUR WERE TWO THOUSAND AND SIX HUNDRED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE MADE IN JERUSALEM ENGINES, INVENTED BY CUNNING MEN, TO BE ON THE TOWERS AND UPON THE BULWARKS, TO SHOOT ARROWS AND GREAT STONES WITHAL. AND HIS NAME SPREAD FAR ABROAD; FOR HE WAS MARVELLOUSLY HELPED, TILL HE WAS STRONG._ Made ... engines, invented by cunning men ... to shoot arrows and grea... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT WHEN HE WAS STRONG, HIS HEART WAS LIFTED UP TO HIS DESTRUCTION: FOR HE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST THE LORD HIS GOD, AND WENT INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD TO BURN INCENSE UPON THE ALTAR OF INCENSE._ HE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST THE LORD ... - (see the note at 2 Kings 15:5.) This daring and wicked act is in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AZARIAH THE PRIEST WENT IN AFTER HIM, AND WITH HIM FOURSCORE PRIESTS OF THE LORD, THAT WERE VALIANT MEN:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY WITHSTOOD UZZIAH THE KING, AND SAID UNTO HIM, IT APPERTAINETH NOT UNTO THEE, UZZIAH, TO BURN INCENSE UNTO THE LORD, BUT TO THE PRIESTS THE SONS OF AARON, THAT ARE CONSECRATED TO BURN INCENSE: GO OUT OF THE SANCTUARY; FOR THOU HAST TRESPASSED; NEITHER SHALL IT BE FOR THINE HONOUR FROM THE L... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN UZZIAH WAS WROTH, AND HAD A CENSER IN HIS HAND TO BURN INCENSE: AND WHILE HE WAS WROTH WITH THE PRIESTS, THE LEPROSY EVEN ROSE UP IN HIS FOREHEAD BEFORE THE PRIESTS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, FROM BESIDE THE INCENSE ALTAR._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND UZZIAH THE KING WAS A LEPER UNTO THE DAY OF HIS DEATH, AND DWELT IN A SEVERAL HOUSE, BEING A LEPER; FOR HE WAS CUT OFF FROM THE HOUSE OF THE LORD: AND JOTHAM HIS SON WAS OVER THE KING'S HOUSE, JUDGING THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND._ Dwelt in a several house - in an infirmary; i:e., was excommunicated... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF UZZIAH, FIRST AND LAST, DID ISAIAH THE PROPHET, THE SON OF AMOZ, WRITE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO UZZIAH SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS, AND THEY BURIED HIM WITH HIS FATHERS IN THE FIELD OF THE BURIAL WHICH BELONGED TO THE KINGS; FOR THEY SAID, HE IS A LEPER: AND JOTHAM HIS SON REIGNED IN HIS STEAD._ They buried him ... in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings. He was interred, not in... [ Continue Reading ]