2 Chronicles 26:23

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Uzziah	עֻזִּיָּ֜הוּ 'u.zi.Ya.hu	H5818	Uzzijah · proper noun, a man's name
slept	וַיִּשְׁכַּ֨ב vai.yish.Kav	H7901	to lie down (for rest · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
fathers	אֲבֹתָ֗יו 'a.vo.Tav	H1	father · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
buried	וַיִּקְבְּר֨וּ vai.yik.be.Ru	H6912	to inter · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
fathers	אֲבֹתָיו֙ 'a.vo.Tav	H1	father · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
field	בִּשְׂדֵ֤ה bis.Deh	H7704	a field (as flat) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
burial	הַקְּבוּרָה֙ ha.ke.vu.Rah	H6900	sepulture · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
kings	לַמְּלָכִ֔ים la.me.la.Khim	H4428	a king · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
said	אָמְר֖וּ 'a.me.Ru	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
leper	מְצוֹרָ֣ע me.tzo.Ra'	H6879	to scourge · verb, pual passive participle, masculine singular absolute
Jotham	יוֹתָ֥ם yo.Tam	H3147	Jotham · proper noun, a man's name
son	בְּנ֖וֹ be.No	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
reigned	וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ vai.yim.Lokh	H4427	to reign · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

2 Chronicles 21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit…
2 Chronicles 28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kin…
2 Kings 15:6-7 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 26:18 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 prie…
2 Chronicles 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
Isaiah 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 26:16–end

Here is the only blot we find on the name of king Uzziah, and it is such a one as lies not on any other of the kings. Whoredom, murder, oppression, persecution, and especially idolatry, gave characters to the bad kings and some of them blemishes to the good ones, David himself not excepted, witness the matter of Uriah. But we find not Uzziah charged with any of these; and yet he transgressed against the Lord his God, and fell under the marks of his displeasure in consequence, not, as other kings, in vexatious wars or rebellions, but an incurable disease. I. His sin was invading the priest's office. The good way is one; by-paths are many. The transgression of his predecessors was forsaking th…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 26:23

they buried him . . . in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings--He was interred not in, but near, the sepulcher of the kings, as the corpse of a leper would have polluted it. Next: 2 Chronicles Chapter 27

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 26:23

They buried him - in the field of the burial - As he was a leper, he was not permitted to be buried in the common burial-place of the kings; as it was supposed that even a place of sepulture must be defiled by the body of one who had died of this most afflictive and dangerous malady.

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 26:23

So Uzziah slept with his fathers,.... Died as they did, the same year, according to Dr. Lightfoot (e), in which he was smitten with the leprosy; and in the year of his death it was Isaiah had the vision related in Isaiah 6:1, &c. and they buried him with his fathers; See Gill on 2 Kings 15:7. (e) Works, vol. 1. p. 99.

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:21

The leprosy forced King Uzziah to spend the end of his life in quarantine in a separate house (literally a free house). The significance of this term is not known; it is often interpreted to mean that he was free from the duties of the monarchy. In Ugaritic texts, it seems to be a euphemism for a place of total confinement.

The Church Fathers

For what was Ozias doing out of place, when offering incense to Almighty God? ...Yea, further, what were those domineering demons, who were truly proclaiming the Lord Jesus God? But every one who meddles with other people's business, is outlawed by the Word of God; and each one shall be in the rank of his own service, and alone the High Priest shall enter into the Holy of holies, and once only throughout the year, and this in the full legal hierarchical purification. And the priests encompass the holy things, and the Levites must not touch the holy things, lest they die. And Jehovah was angry with wrath at the rashness of Ozias, and Mariam becomes leprous, because she had presumed to lay down laws for the lawgiver... So that it is not permissible, as the holy Oracles say, even to pursue things that are just, when not according to order, but each must keep to himself, and not meditate things too high and too deep for him, but contemplate alone things prescribed for him according to order.
— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, The Letters, Letter VIII

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Dictionary and topics

Jotham — Jehovah is perfect. (1.) The youngest of Gideon’s seventy sons. He escaped when the rest were put to death by the order of Abimelech (Judg. 9:5). When “the citizens of Shechem and the whole house of…
Uzziah — A contracted form of Azari’ah the Lord is my strength. (1.) One of Amaziah’s sons, whom the people made king of Judah in his father’s stead (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 26:1). His long reign of about…
Jotham · 2. — 2.
Kings · Who reigned over Judah: Azariah or Uzziah — Who reigned over Judah: Azariah or Uzziah
Leprosy · Separate burial of — Separate burial of
Uzziah · . — .

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 26:16–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 26:23

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 26:23

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 26:23

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:21

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 26:16–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 26:23

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 26:23

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 26:23

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:21

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Rashi on 2 Chronicles 26:23