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2 Chronicles 26:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3Sixteen 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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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Uzziah seeks God and prospers in his early reign.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 26:1–5
Read 2 Chronicles 26:3 with 26:1–5. 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: The people make sixteen-year-old Uzziah king; he restores Eloth, follows a qualified right path, and prospers while he seeks God under Zechariah's instruction.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Uzziah seeks God and prospers in his early reign,” 2 Chronicles 26:3 advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence through the wording “Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in….” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The opening establishes a positive trajectory whose very strength becomes the setting for later pride. 2 Chronicles 25:25–28 has just established this prior movement: Amaziah outlives Jehoash, turns from the LORD, faces a Jerusalem conspiracy, flees to Lachish, is killed there, and is returned for burial. Together those details explain why “Uzziah seeks God and prospers in his early reign” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 2 Chronicles 26:1–5 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 26:1–5 forms the complete movement “Uzziah seeks God and prospers in his early reign”: The people make sixteen-year-old Uzziah king; he restores Eloth, follows a qualified right path, and prospers while he seeks God under Zechariah's instruction.
Verse 1. 1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Verse 2. 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Verse 3. 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.
Verse 4. 4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
Verse 5. 5 And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
What Remains True
Temple repair, prophetic truth, warfare, royal strength, priestly boundaries, illness, and succession show that good beginnings and institutional service never excuse later abuse. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: The people make sixteen-year-old Uzziah king; he restores Eloth, follows a qualified right path, and prospers while he seeks God under Zechariah's instruction. In 2 Chronicles 26:3, the concrete line “Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in…” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in….” Use transparent finances and skilled work, protect prophets and workers, refuse cruelty after victory, maintain role boundaries, and never stigmatize disease or disability. This response follows from the unit's own movement: The people make sixteen-year-old Uzziah king; he restores Eloth, follows a qualified right path, and prospers while he seeks God under Zechariah's instruction.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 26:1–5, 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 26:1–5
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 26:1–5, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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