2 Chronicles 26:1
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New International Version (©2011)
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

New Living Translation (©2007)
All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

International Standard Version (©2012)
All the people of Judah made Uzziah king in place of his father Amaziah. Uzziah was sixteen years old at the time.

NET Bible (©2006)
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah's place.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

American King James Version
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

American Standard Version
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people of Juda took his son Ozias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of Amasias his father.

Darby Bible Translation
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

English Revised Version
And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

World English Bible
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the people of Judah take Uzziah (and he is a son of sixteen years), and cause him to reign instead of his father Amaziah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:1-15 As long as Uzziah sought the Lord, and minded religion, God made him to prosper. Those only prosper whom God makes to prosper; for prosperity is his gift. Many have owned, that as long as they sought the Lord, and kept close to their duty, they prospered; but when they forsook God, every thing went cross. God never continues either to bless the indolent or to withhold his blessing from the diligent. He will never suffer any to seek his face in vain. Uzziah's name was famed throughout all the neighbouring countries. A name with God and good people makes truly honourable. He did not delight in war, nor addict himself to sports, but delighted in husbandry.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 1. - Uzziah; Hebrew, עֻזִּיָּה. (signifying "Strength of Jehovah"). Once in Chronicles, and once only (1 Chronicles 3:12), this king's name is given Azariah, Hebrew, עֲזַרְיָה (signifying "Help of Jehovah") or עֲזַרְיָהוּ; and Isaiah (Isaiah 1:1, etc.), Hosea (Hosea 1:1, etc.), and Amos (Amos 1:1, etc.) always use the word Uzziah. In the parallel, however, and in both the chapters in which the parallel clauses lie, the word Azariah is used, as well in other clauses as in those (e.g. 2 Kings 15:1, 6, 8, 23, 27), yet Uzziah is also used in verses intermingled with them (e.g. 13, 30, 32, 34). It is probable that Azariah was the first-used name, that the latter name was not a corruption of the former, but that, for whatever reason, the king was called by both names. Nevertheless, the apt analogy that has been pointed out of Uzziel (1 Chronicles 25:4) and Azareel (18) is noteworthy. (See Keil and Bertheau on 1 Kings 15:2 and 2 Kings 14:21; and Keil on our present passage.) Sixteen years old. Therefore Uzziah must have been born just before the fatal outside mistake of his father's life in the challenge he sent to Joash of Israel, and after the deadly inner mistake of his soul in turning aside to "the gods of the children of Seir."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

CHAPTER 26

2Ch 26:1-8. Uzziah Succeeds Amaziah and Reigns Well in the Days of Zechariah.

1. Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah—(See on [453]2Ki 14:21; [454]2Ki 15:1).

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Uzziah Reigns in Judah
1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 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. …

2 Chronicles 25:28 He was brought back by horse and was buried with his ancestors in the City of Judah.
2 Chronicles 26:2 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.
Isaiah 1:1 The vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and during the reign of Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel:
Amos 1:1 The words of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa--the vision he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.