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As soon as the royal power was firmly in his hand he killed his servants who had murdered his father the king.

Amaziah took courage, and led out his people; he went to the Valley of Salt, and struck down ten thousand men of Seir.

Now after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up as his gods, and worshiped them, making offerings to them.

They brought him back on horses; he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David.

Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed his father Amaziah.

He rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his ancestors.

Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord , just as his father Amaziah had done.

The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

In Jerusalem he set up machines, invented by skilled workers, on the towers and the corners for shooting arrows and large stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped until he became strong.

But when he had become strong he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was false to the Lord his God, and entered the temple of the Lord to make offering on the altar of incense.

Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to make offering, and when he became angry with the priests a leprous disease broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord , by the altar of incense.

When the chief priest Azariah, and all the priests, looked at him, he was leprous in his forehead. They hurried him out, and he himself hurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him.

King Uzziah was leprous to the day of his death, and being leprous lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord . His son Jotham was in charge of the palace of the king, governing the people of the land.

Uzziah slept with his ancestors; they buried him near his ancestors in the burial field that belonged to the kings, for they said, "He is leprous." His son Jotham succeeded him.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord just as his father Uzziah had done—only he did not invade the temple of the Lord . But the people still followed corrupt practices.

So Jotham became strong because he ordered his ways before the Lord his God.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

Jotham slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David; and his son Ahaz succeeded him.