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1 Then all the people of Iudah tooke Vzziah, which was sixteene yeere olde, and made him King in the steade of his father Amaziah. 2 He buylt Eloth, and restored it to Iudah after that the King slept with his fathers. 3 Sixteene yeere olde was Vzziah, when he began to reigne, & he reigned two and fiftie yere in Ierusalem, and his mothers name was Iecoliah of Ierusalem. 4 And hee did vprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to al that his father Amaziah did. 5 And he sought God in the dayes of Zechariah (which vnderstoode the visions of God) and when as he sought the Lorde, God made him to prosper. 6 For he went forth and fought against the Philistims & brake downe the wall of Gath, and the wall of Iabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod, and among the Philistims. 7 And God helped him against ye Philistims, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal and Hammeunim. 2 Chronicles 26:1-7, Geneva Bible of 1587. Public domain.
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