2 Chronicles 26:3

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Sixteen	שֵׁ֨שׁ shesh	H8337	six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the h… · noun, common both genders singular absolute
years	שָׁנָה֙ sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
old	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
Uzziah	עֻזִּיָּ֣הוּ 'u.zi.Ya.hu	H5818	Uzzijah · proper noun, a man's name
reign	בְמָלְכ֔וֹ ve.ma.le.Kho	H4427	to reign · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
reigned	מָלַ֖ךְ ma.Lakh	H4427	to reign · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
fifty	וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים va.cha.mi.Shim	H2572	fifty · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute
two	וּשְׁתַּ֙יִם֙ u.she.Ta.yim	H8147	two · conjunction + noun, common feminine dual absolute
years	שָׁנָ֔ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Jerusalem	בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם bi.ru.sha.Lim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · preposition + proper noun, a place name
mother’s	אִמּ֔וֹ 'i.Mo	H517	a mother (as the bond of the family) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
name	וְשֵׁ֣ם ve.Shem	H8034	an appellation · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct
Jecoliah	יְכָלְיָ֖ה ye.khi.le.yah	H3203	Jekoljah or Jekiljah · proper noun, a woman's name
Jerusalem	יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם ye.ru.sha.Lim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · proper noun, a place name

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

2 Kings 15:2-3 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jer…
Isaiah 1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings o…
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.
Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the d…
Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days o…
Zechariah 14:5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 26:1-15

We have here an account of two things concerning Uzziah: - I. His piety. In this he was not very eminent or zealous; yet he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. He kept up the pure worship of the true God as his father did, and was better than his father, inasmuch as we have no reason to think he ever worshipped idols as his father did, no, not in his latter days, when his heart was lifted up. It is said (Ch2 26:5), He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who, some think, was the son of the Zechariah whom his grandfather Joash slew. This Zechariah was one that had understanding in the visions of God, either the visions which he himself was favoured with or the visions of the p…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Chronicles 26:2

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 (Ch2 33:13), is placed before the chronological notices (Ch2 26:3), either on account of the importance attached to the conquest of Eloth, or from the desire of the historian to introduce Uzziah as the king, who was known as the conqueror of Eloth. Besides, it indicates that the conquest occurred in the early part of his reign, that it was important as a port, and that Hebrew merchants maintained the old trade between it and the countries of the East [BERTHEAU].

Adam Clarke on 2 Chronicles 26:2

He built Eloth - See the notes on Kg2 14:21. This king is called by several different names; see the note on Kg2 15:1.

John Gill on 2 Chronicles 26:1

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. See Gill on 2 Kings 14:21, 2 Kings 14:22, 2 Kings 15:2, 2 Kings 15:3

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:3

Dictionary and topics

Jecoliah — Able through Jehovah, the wife of King Amaziah, and mother of King Uzziah (2 Chr. 26:3).
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…
Jecholiah · Mother ofAzariah — Mother ofAzariah
Kings · Who reigned over Judah: Azariah or Uzziah — Who reigned over Judah: Azariah or Uzziah
Uzziah · .King of — .King of

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).