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Good News Translation

2 Chronicles 26:1

All the people of Judah chose Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son Uzziah to succeed his father as king.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Uzziah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Azariah;   Uzziah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Isaiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Amos;   Hosea;   Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Chronicles, Books of;   Edom;   Uzzia(h);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Uzziah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Uzziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Uzziah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amaziah;   Uzziah (Azariah);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Hebrew Names Version
All the people of Yehudah took `Uzziyah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amatzyah.
King James Version
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
English Standard Version
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
New Century Version
Then all the people of Judah made Uzziah king in place of his father Amaziah. Uzziah was sixteen years old.
New English Translation
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah's place.
Amplified Bible
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
New American Standard Bible
Now all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
World English Bible
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then all the people of Iudah tooke Vzziah, which was sixteene yeere olde, and made him King in the steade of his father Amaziah.
Legacy Standard Bible
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
Berean Standard Bible
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Contemporary English Version
After the death of King Amaziah, the people of Judah crowned his son Uzziah king, even though he was only sixteen at the time. Uzziah ruled fifty-two years from Jerusalem, the hometown of his mother Jecoliah. During his rule, he recaptured and rebuilt the town of Elath.
Complete Jewish Bible
Meanwhile, all the people of Y'hudah had taken ‘Uziyahu at the age of sixteen and made him king in place of his father Amatzyahu.
Darby Translation
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then the people of Judah chose Uzziah to be the new king in place of Amaziah. Amaziah was Uzziah's father. Uzziah was 16 years old when he became king.
George Lamsa Translation
THEN all the people of Judah took Uzziah his son, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Lexham English Bible
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah (now he was sixteen years old) and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
Literal Translation
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah; and he was a son of sixteen years; and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then all the people of Iuda toke Osias, which was syxtene yeare olde, and made him kynge in steade of his father Amasias.
American Standard Version
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Bible in Basic English
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then all the people of Iuda toke Uzzia, which was sixteene yeres olde, & made him king in the roome of his father Amaziahu.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
King James Version (1611)
Then all the people of Iudah tooke Uzziah, who was sixteene yeeres old, and made him King in the roome of his father Amaziah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Then all the people of the land took Ozias, and he was sixteen years old, and they made him king in the room of his father Amasias.
English Revised Version
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe al the puple of Juda made kyng, Ozie, his sone, `of sixtene yeer, for his fader Amasie.
Update Bible Version
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
New King James Version
Now all the people of Judah took Uzziah, 2 Kings 14:21ff">[fn] who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
New Living Translation
All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father.
New Life Bible
Then all the people took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
New Revised Standard
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed his father Amaziah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, when, he, was sixteen years old, - and made him king, instead of his father Amaziah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.
Revised Standard Version
And all the people of Judah took Uzzi'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.
Young's Literal Translation
And all the people of Judah take Uzziah (and he [is] a son of sixteen years), and cause him to reign instead of his father Amaziah.
THE MESSAGE
The people of Judah then took Uzziah, who was only sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah. The first thing he did after his father was dead and buried was to recover Elath for Judah and rebuild it.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

Contextual Overview

1 All the people of Judah chose Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son Uzziah to succeed his father as king. 2 (It was after the death of Amaziah that Uzziah recaptured Elath and rebuilt the city.) 3 Uzziah became king at the age of sixteen, and he ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. His mother was Jecoliah from Jerusalem. 4 Following the example of his father, he did what was pleasing to the Lord . 5 As long as Zechariah, his religious adviser, was living, he served the Lord faithfully, and God blessed him. 6 Uzziah went to war against the Philistines. He tore down the walls of the cities of Gath, Jamnia, and Ashdod, and built fortified cities near Ashdod and in the rest of Philistia. 7 God helped him defeat the Philistines, the Arabs living at Gurbaal, and the Meunites. 8 The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and he became so powerful that his fame spread even to Egypt. 9 Uzziah strengthened the fortifications of Jerusalem by building towers at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and where the wall turned. 10 He also built fortified towers in the open country and dug many cisterns, because he had large herds of livestock in the western foothills and plains. Because he loved farming, he encouraged the people to plant vineyards in the hill country and to farm the fertile land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all the: 2 Chronicles 22:1, 2 Chronicles 33:25

Uzziah: 2 Kings 14:21, 2 Kings 15:1-7, 1 Chronicles 3:12, Azariah, Matthew 1:8, Matthew 1:9, Ozias

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 21:24 - made Josiah 2 Chronicles 34:1 - eight years 2 Chronicles 36:1 - the people Isaiah 1:1 - the days Hosea 1:1 - Uzziah Amos 1:1 - in the

Cross-References

Genesis 25:11
After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near "The Well of the Living One Who Sees Me."
Genesis 26:1
There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
Genesis 26:2
The Lord had appeared to Isaac and had said, "Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land, where I tell you to stay.
Genesis 26:22
He moved away from there and dug another well. There was no dispute about this one, so he named it "Freedom." He said, "Now the Lord has given us freedom to live in the land, and we will be prosperous here."
Genesis 26:32
On that day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug. They said, "We have found water."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 1-4. Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah,.... Of this and the three following verses, see the notes on 2 Kings 14:21 where Uzziah is called Azariah.

2 Kings 14:21- : 2 Kings 14:21- : 2 Kings 14:21- : 2 Kings 14:21- :

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Uzziah - This form of the name is found uniformly in Chronicles (except 1 Chronicles 3:12) and in the prophets. The writer of Kings prefers the form Azariah. Uzziah has been regarded as a phonetic corruption of the real name used by the common people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXVI

Uzziah, the son of Amaziah, succeeds; and begins his reign

piously and prosperously, which continued during the life of

Zechariah the prophet, 1-5.

He fights successfully against the Philistines, and takes and

dismantles some of their chief cities, 6;

prevails over the Arabians and Mehunims, 7;

and brings the Ammonites under tribute, 8.

He fortifies Jerusalem, and builds towers in different parts

of the country, and delights in husbandry, 9, 10.

An account of his military strength, warlike instruments, and

machines, 11-15.

He is elated with his prosperity, invades the priest's office,

and is smitten with the leprosy, 16-20.

He is obliged to abdicate the regal office, and dwell apart

from this people, his son Jotham acting as regent, 21.

His death and burial, 22, 23.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXVI

Verse 2 Chronicles 26:1. The people of Judah took Uzziah — They all agreed to place this son on his father's throne.


 
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