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Persons Of The Bible --
Uzziah
The name "Uzziah" means "my power is YAHWEH" in
Hebrew. The name also means "the Lord is my strength." The
name is a contracted form of Azari'ah.
There are various persons with the name "Uzziah" in the
scriptures.
(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
fifty-two years was "the most prosperous excepting that of
Jehosaphat since the time of Solomon." He was a vigorous and able
ruler, and "his name spread abroad, even to the entering in of
Egypt" (2 Chr. 26:8, 14). In the earlier part of his reign, under
the influence of Zechariah, he was faithful to Jehovah, and "did
that which was right in the sight of the Lord" (2 Kings 15:3; 2 Chr.
26:4, 5); but toward the close of his long life "his heart was
lifted up to his destruction," and he wantonly invaded the priest's
office (2 Chr. 26:16), and entering the sanctuary proceeded to offer
incense on the golden altar. Azariah the high priest saw the tendency of
such a daring act on the part of the king, and with a band of eighty
priests he withstood him (2 Chr. 26:17), saying, "It appertaineth
not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense." Uzziah was suddenly struck
with leprosy while in the act of offering incense (26:19-21), and he was
driven from the temple and compelled to reside in "a several
house" to the day of his death (2 Kings 15:5, 27; 2 Chr. 26:3). He
was buried in a separate grave "in the field of the burial which
belonged to the kings" (2 Kings 15:7; 2 Chr. 26:23). "That
lonely grave in the royal necropolis would eloquently testify to coming
generations that all earthly monarchy must bow before the inviolable
order of the divine will, and that no interference could be tolerated
with that unfolding of the purposes of God, which, in the fulness of
time, would reveal the Christ, the true High Priest and King for
evermore" (Dr. Green's Kingdom of Israel, etc.).
(2.) The father of Jehonathan, one of David's overseers (1 Chr. 27:25).
(3.) A Kohathite Levite, and ancestor of Samuel. (1 Chronicles 6:24)
(9).
(4.) A priest of the sons of Harim, who had taken a foreign wife in the
days of Ezra. (Ezra 10:21) (B.C. 458).
(5.) Father of Athaiah or Uthai. (Nehemiah 11:4).
(6.) Father of Jehonathan, one of David's overseers. (1 Chronicles
27:25) (B.C. about 1053).
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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