2 Chronicles 26:1-7 ▼

1 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed his father Amaziah.

2 He rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his ancestors.

3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

4 He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

5 He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.

6 He went out and made war against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod; he built cities in the territory of Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.

7 God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.