2 Chronicles 26:22–23, King James Version
Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.
2 Chronicles 26:22–23
Uzziah dies and is buried apart
Isaiah is named as the recorder of a fifty-two-year reign
Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, write. The long catalogue of farms, towers, engines, and trespass is handed to a prophetic record the reader of this book does not possess.
The relation of that named writing to the canonical book of Isaiah is not given here. The notice marks a source, not a license to invent missing chapters.
They bury him in the field because they say he is a leper
Uzziah sleeps with his fathers, and they bury him with his fathers in the field of the burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper. Jotham his son reigns in his stead.
The royal tombs have a field attached, and the king is placed there because of the condition already narrated. Separate burial in this sentence is an ancient response to tsara'at, still not a clinical chart. It does not authorize segregating, shaming, or denying equal dignity to people with infectious disease or disability.
How this should shape us
Let a burial notice stay a burial notice. Do not turn Uzziah's field grave into a rule for where ill or disabled people may be laid, and do not pretend a missing Isaiah memoir can be reconstructed from this line.
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Best judgment: The relation of the named Isaiah record to canonical Isaiah is unknown, and the precise burial practice is not fully recoverable.
How certain? probableResearch trail and exact locationsThe source record behind this section
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
2 Chronicles 26:22–23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 26:22–23
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 26:22–23, verse-attached translation and translator notes
Supports: Publisher-visible framing of the Chronicler's God, worship, Israel, kingship, retribution, and hope, used within its access limitation rather than as uninspected detailed commentary.
Japhet, The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles (2009), chapter 3, 'The People of Israel,' pp. 209–307, and chapter 4, 'Kingship,' pp. 308–383; only the official exposed openings and ranges were inspected
Supports: A recent critical reading of institutional legitimation and selective historical discourse, used without reducing all worship to elite manipulation.
Geyser-Fouché, HTS 79.1 (2023), complete official HTML, sections on selective narration, temple and personnel, royal patronage, Athaliah and Joash, exile, and power
Supports: Case-sensitive distinction between events and literary presentation in ancient historiography, including credibility limits and rhetorical shaping.
Kalimi, 'History, Historiography, Historical Evaluation and Credibility,' repository PDF pp. 7–25
Supports: Ancient textual association of Uzziah's cultic trespass and skin condition, expressly bounded against modern diagnosis or illness blame.
Meyer, Verbum et Ecclesia 44.1 (2023), complete article sections discussing 2 Chronicles 26:16–21, ma'al, tsara'at, and Leviticus 13–14
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Biblical text
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eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 26:22–23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 26:22–23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
Supports: Unit-bounded translation comparisons and only those lexical, textual, grammatical, numerical, historical, and parallel-passage notes attached to these verses.
Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 26:22–23, verse-attached translation and translator notes
Open source ↗modern scholarly monograph limited access
The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought
Sara Japhet
Eisenbrauns / Penn State University Press, English edition 1989; reprint 2009
Supports: Publisher-visible framing of the Chronicler's God, worship, Israel, kingship, retribution, and hope, used within its access limitation rather than as uninspected detailed commentary.
Exact location: Japhet, The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles (2009), chapter 3, 'The People of Israel,' pp. 209–307, and chapter 4, 'Kingship,' pp. 308–383; only the official exposed openings and ranges were inspected
Open source ↗peer reviewed open access scholarly article
1 and 2 Chronicles as a discourse of power
Ananda Geyser-Fouche
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(1), article 8011, 2023
Supports: A recent critical reading of institutional legitimation and selective historical discourse, used without reducing all worship to elite manipulation.
Exact location: Geyser-Fouché, HTS 79.1 (2023), complete official HTML, sections on selective narration, temple and personnel, royal patronage, Athaliah and Joash, exile, and power
Open source ↗peer reviewed open access scholarly article
History, Historiography, Historical Evaluation and Credibility: Chronicles in Its Ancient Context
Isaac Kalimi
Poznań Theological Studies repository edition, pp. 7-25, 2019 repository edition
Supports: Case-sensitive distinction between events and literary presentation in ancient historiography, including credibility limits and rhetorical shaping.
Exact location: Kalimi, 'History, Historiography, Historical Evaluation and Credibility,' repository PDF pp. 7–25
Open source ↗peer reviewed open access scholarly article
Why is there an asham sacrifice in Leviticus 14?
Esias E. Meyer
Verbum et Ecclesia 44(1), article 2832, 2023
Supports: Ancient textual association of Uzziah's cultic trespass and skin condition, expressly bounded against modern diagnosis or illness blame.
Exact location: Meyer, Verbum et Ecclesia 44.1 (2023), complete article sections discussing 2 Chronicles 26:16–21, ma'al, tsara'at, and Leviticus 13–14
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