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2 Chronicles 26:17 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 17. 17And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Uzziah trespasses at the incense altar and develops a skin disease.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 26:16–21
Read 2 Chronicles 26:17 with 26:16–21. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: When strong, Uzziah becomes proud, enters the temple to burn incense, resists eighty priests led by Azariah, develops tsara'at on his forehead, and lives separately while Jotham governs.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 26:17 depends on 26:16–21; isolating “And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Uzziah trespasses at the incense altar and develops a skin disease.”
Read 2 Chronicles 26:16–21 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 26:16–21 forms the complete movement “Uzziah trespasses at the incense altar and develops a skin disease”: When strong, Uzziah becomes proud, enters the temple to burn incense, resists eighty priests led by Azariah, develops tsara'at on his forehead, and lives separately while Jotham governs.
Verse 16. 16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
Verse 17. 17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
Verse 18. 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 priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the LORD God.
Verse 19. 19 Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar.
Verse 20. 20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had smitten him.
Verse 21. 21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.
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