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Azariah (47 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. AZARIAH. az-a-ri'-a `azaryahu and `azaryah,
("Yahweh has helped"): (1) King of Judah. See UZZIAH. ... WW Davies. UZZIAH; (AZARIAH). ...
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Azariah's (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Azariah's (2 Occurrences). 2 Kings 15:6 Now the
rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they ...
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Ephraim-azariah (1 Occurrence)
Ephraim-azariah. E'phraim, Ephraim-azariah. Ephraimite .
Multi-Version Concordance Ephraim-azariah (1 Occurrence). 2 ...
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Azari'ah (46 Occurrences)
Azari'ah. Azariah, Azari'ah. Azariah's . ... 1 Kings 4:2 And these were the princes
whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest; (See RSV). ...
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Three (5005 Occurrences)
... Old Latin and Vulgate) it follows Daniel 3:23 immediately, forming an integral portion
of that chapter, namely, The So of the Three Children (Azariah) 1:24-90 ...
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Oded (3 Occurrences)
... Restoring, or setting up. (1.) Father of the prophet Azariah (2 Chronicles 15:1,
8). (2.) A prophet in the time of Ahaz and Pekah (2 Chronicles 28:9-15). Int. ...
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Mish'a-el (7 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Daniel 1:6 And there are among them out of the sons of Judah,
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, (See RSV). Daniel ...
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Joha'nan (25 Occurrences)
... and Anani, seven. (See RSV). 1 Chronicles 6:9 and Ahimaaz begot Azariah,
and Azariah begot Johanan; (See RSV). 1 Chronicles 6:10 and ...
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Obed (13 Occurrences)
... (4) A Korahite doorkeeper, son of Shemaiah, and grandson of Obed-edom (1 Chronicles
26:7). (5) Father of Azariah, one of the centurions who took part with ...
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Jehohanan (9 Occurrences)
... 26:3). (2.) One of Jehoshaphat's "captains" (2 Chronicles 17:15). (3.)
The father of Azariah (2 Chronicles 28:12). (4.) The son ...
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Bible Concordance

Azariah (47 Occurrences)

1 Kings 4:2 These were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
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1 Kings 4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, and the king's friend;
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2 Kings 14:21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
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2 Kings 15:1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
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2 Kings 15:6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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2 Kings 15:7 Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
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2 Kings 15:8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
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2 Kings 15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
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2 Kings 15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
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2 Kings 15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
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1 Chronicles 2:8 The sons of Ethan: Azariah.
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1 Chronicles 2:38 and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,
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1 Chronicles 2:39 and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,
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1 Chronicles 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
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1 Chronicles 6:9 and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan,
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1 Chronicles 6:10 and Johanan became the father of Azariah, (he it is who executed the priest's office in the house that Solomon built in Jerusalem),
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1 Chronicles 6:11 and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,
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1 Chronicles 6:13 and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah,
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1 Chronicles 6:14 and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak;
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1 Chronicles 6:36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
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1 Chronicles 9:11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
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2 Chronicles 15:1 The Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded:
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2 Chronicles 15:8 And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.
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2 Chronicles 21:2 He had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 22:6 He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
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2 Chronicles 23:1 In the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.
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2 Chronicles 26:17 Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men:
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2 Chronicles 26:20 Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; yes, himself hurried also to go out, because Yahweh had struck him.
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2 Chronicles 28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war,
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2 Chronicles 29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
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2 Chronicles 31:10 Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
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2 Chronicles 31:13 Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
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Ezra 7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
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Ezra 7:3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
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Nehemiah 3:23 After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over against their house. After them repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah beside his own house.
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Nehemiah 3:24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.
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Nehemiah 7:7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
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Nehemiah 8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.
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Nehemiah 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
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Nehemiah 12:33 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
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Jeremiah 43:2 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;
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Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. Meshach; and to Azariah,
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Daniel 1:6 Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
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Daniel 1:7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names: for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abednego.
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Daniel 1:11 Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
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Daniel 1:19 The king talked with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.
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Daniel 2:17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Azariah

he that hears the Lord

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Azariah

(whom the Lord helps) a common name in Hebrew, and especially in the families of the priests of the line of Eleazar, whose name has precisely the same meaning as Azariah. It is nearly identical, and is often confounded, with Ezra as well as with Zerahiah and Seraiah. The principal persons who bore this name were--

Son of Ahimaaz. (1 Chronicles 6:9) He appears from (1 Kings 4:2) to have succeeded Zadok, his grandfather, in the high priesthood, in the reign of Solomon, Ahimaaz having died before Zadok. (B.C. About 1000.) [AHIMAAZ]
A chief officer of Solomon's, the son of Nathan, perhaps David's grandson. (1 Kings 4:5)
Tenth king of Judah, more frequently called Uzziah. (2 Kings 14:21; 15:1,6,8,17,23,27; 1 Chronicles 8:12)
Son of Ethan, of the sons of Zerah, where, perhaps, Zerahiah is the more probable reading. (1 Chronicles 2:8)
Son of Jehu of the family of the Jerahmeelites, and descended from Jarha the Egyptian slave of Sheshan. (1 Chronicles 2:38,39) He was probably one of the captains of hundreds in the time of Athaliah mentioned in (2 Chronicles 23:1) (B.C. 886.)
The son of Johanan. (1 Chronicles 6:10) He must have been high priest in the reign of Abijah and Asa. (B.C. 939.)
Another Azariah is inserted between Hilkiah, in Josiah's reign, and Seraiah who was put to death by Nebuchadnezzar, in (1 Chronicles 6:13,14)
Son of Zephaniah, a Kohathite, and ancestor of Samuel the prophet. (1 Chronicles 6:36) Apparently the same as Uzziah in ver. 24.
Azariah; the son of Oded, (2 Chronicles 15:1) called simply Oded in ver. 8, was a remarkable prophet in the days of King Asa, and a contemporary of Azariah the son of Johanan the high priest, and of Hanani the seer. (B.C. 939.)
Son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. (2 Chronicles 21:2) (B.C.910.)
Another son of Jehoshaphat, and brother of the preceding. (2 Chronicles 21:2)
In (2 Chronicles 22:6) Azariah is a clerical error for Ahaziah.
Son of Jeroham, one of the captains of Judah in the time of Athaliah. (2 Chronicles 23:1)
The high priest in the reign of Uzziah king of Judah. The most memorable event of his life is that which is recorded in (2 Chronicles 26:17-20) (B.C. 810.) Azariah was contemporary with Isaiah the prophet and with Amos and Joel.
Son of Johanan, one of the captains of Ephraim in the reign of Ahaz. (2 Chronicles 28:12)
A Kohathite, father of Joel, in the reign of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:12) (B.C. 726.)
A Merarite, son of Jehalelel, in the time of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 29:12)
The high priest in the days of Hezekiah. (2 Chronicles 31:10,13) He appears to have co operated zealously with the king in that thorough purification of the temple and restoration of the temple service, which was so conspicuous a feature in his reign. He succeeded Urijah, who was high priest in the reign of Ahaz.
Son of Maaseiah who repaired part of the wall of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 3:23,24) (B.C. 446-410.)
One of the leaders of the children of the province who went up from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:7)
One of the Levites who assisted Ezra in instructing the people in the knowledge of the law. (Nehemiah 8:7)
One of the priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah (Nehemiah 10:2) and probably the same with the Azariah who assisted in the dedication of the city wall. (Nehemiah 12:33)
(Jeremiah 13:2) (Jezaniah).
The original name of Abednego. (Daniel 1:6,7,11,19) He appears to have been of the seed-royal of Judah. (B.C. 603.)

ATS Bible Dictionary

Azariah

A king of Judah, 2 Kings 15:1-7. In 2 Chronicles 26:1-23, and elsewhere, he is called Uzziah. He began to reign at sixteen years of age, B. C. 806. The first part of his reign was prosperous and happy; but afterwards, presuming to offer incense in the temple, he was smitten with leprosy, and continued a leper till his death, 2 Chronicles 26:16 23. This name was very common among the Jews, and was borne by many briefly referred to in Scripture.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Whom Jehovah helps.

(1.) Son of Ethan, of the tribe of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:8).

(2.) Son of Ahimaaz, who succeeded his grandfather Zadok as high priest (1 Chronicles 6:9; 1 Kings 4:2) in the days of Solomon. He officiated at the consecration of the temple (1 Chronicles 6:10).

(3.) The son of Johanan, high priest in the reign of Abijah and Asa (2 Chronicles 6:10, 11).

(4.) High priest in the reign of Uzziah, king of Judah (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chronicles 26:17-20). He was contemporary with the prophets Isaiah, Amos, and Joel.

(5.) High priest in the days of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 31:10-13). Of the house of Zadok.

(6.) Several other priests and Levites of this name are mentioned (1 Chronicles 6:36; Ezra 7:1; 1 Chronicles 9:11; Nehemiah 3:23, etc.).

(7.) The original name of Abed-nego (Dan. 1:6, 7, 11, 16). He was of the royal family of Judah, and with his other two companions remarkable for his personal beauty and his intelligence as well as piety.

(8.) The son of Oded, a remarkable prophet in the days of Asa (2 Chronicles 15:1). He stirred up the king and the people to a great national reformation.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

AZARIAH

az-a-ri'-a `azaryahu and `azaryah, ("Yahweh has helped"):

(1) King of Judah. See UZZIAH.

(2) A Judahite of the house of Ethan the Wise (1 Chronicles 2:8).

(3) The son of Jehu, descended from an Egyptian through the daughter of Sheshan (1 Chronicles 2:38).

(4) A son of Ahimaaz and grandson of Zadok (1 Chronicles 6:9).

(5) A son of Zadok the high priest and an official of Solomon (1 Kings 4:2).

(6) A high priest and son of Johanan (1 Chronicles 6:10).

(7) A Levite, ancestor of Samuel, and Heman the singer (1 Chronicles 6:36).

(8) A son of Nathan and captain of Solomon's tax collectors (1 Kings 4:5).

(9) A prophet in the reign of King Asa; his father's name was Oded (2 Chronicles 15:1-8).

(10 and 11) Two sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah (2 Chronicles 21:2).

(12) King of Judah (2 Chronicles 22:6, called Ahaziah in 2 Chronicles 22:1).

(13) A son of Jeroham, who helped to overthrow Athaliah, and place Joash on the throne (2 Chronicles 23:1).

(14) A son of Johanan and a leading man of Ephraim, mentioned in connection with the emancipated captives taken by Pekah (2 Chronicles 28:12).

(15) A Levite of the family of Merari, who took part in cleansing the temple in the days of Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 29:12).

(16) A high priest who rebuked King Uzziah for arrogating to himself priestly functions (2 Chronicles 26:16-20).

(17) The father of Seraiah and son of Hilkiah (1 Chronicles 6:13f).

(18) A son of Hoshaiah, and a bitter enemy of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 43:2).

(19) One of the royal captives taken to Babylon, whose name was changed to Abed-nego (Daniel 1:7).

(20) The son of Maaseiah, who helped repair the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:23f).

(21) A Levite who assisted Ezra to expound the Law (Nehemiah 8:7).

(22) A priest who sealed the covenant (Nehemiah 10:2).

(23) A prince of Judah mentioned in connection with the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 12:32f).

W. W. Davies

UZZIAH; (AZARIAH)

u-zi'-a, oo-zi'-a (`uzziyah (2 Kings 15:13, 30 Hosea 1:1 Amos 1:1 Zechariah 14:5), `uzziyahu (2 Kings 15:32, 34 Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 6:1; Isaiah 7:1 2 Chronicles 26:1; 27:2); also called `azaryah (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Kings 15:1, 7 1 Chronicles 3:12), 'azaryahu (2 Kings 15:6, 8); Azarias, in Kings, elsewhere Ozias; the significations of the names are similar, the former meaning "my strength is Yah"; the latter, "Yah has helped." It has been thought that the form "Uzziah" may have originated by corruption from the other. The history of the reign is given in 2 Kings 15:1-8 and 2 Chronicles 26):

1. Accession: Uzziah or Azariah, son of Amaziah, and 11th king of Judah, came to the throne at the age of 16. The length of his reign is given as 52 years. The chronological questions raised by this statement are considered below. His accession may here be provisionally dated in 783 B.C. His father Amaziah had met his death by popular violence (2 Kings 14:19), but Uzziah seems to have been the free and glad choice of the people (2 Chronicles 26:1).

2. Foreign Wars:

The unpopularity of his father, owing to a great military disaster, must ever have been present to the mind of Uzziah, and early in his reign he undertook and successfully carried through an expedition against his father's enemies of 20 years before, only extending his operations over a wider area. The Edomites, Philistines and Arabians were successively subdued (these being members of a confederacy which, in an earlier reign, had raided Jerusalem and nearly extirpated the royal family, 2 Chronicles 21:16; 2 Chronicles 22:1); the port of Eloth, at the head of the Red Sea, was restored to Judah, and the city rebuilt (2 Kings 14:22 2 Chronicles 26:2); the walls of certain hostile towns, Gath, Jabneh and Ashdod, were razed to the ground, and the inhabitants of Gur-baal and Maan were reduced to subjection (2 Chronicles 26:6, 7). Even the Ammonites, East of the Jordan, paid tribute to Uzziah, and "his name spread abroad even to the entrance to Egypt; for he waxed exceeding strong" (2 Chronicles 26:8).

3. Home Defenses:

Uzziah next turned his attention to securing the defenses of his capital and country. The walls of Jerusalem were strengthened by towers built at the corner gate, at the valley gate, and at an angle in the wall (see plan of Jerusalem in the writer's Second Temple in Jerusalem); military stations were also formed in Philistia, and in the wilderness of the Negeb, and these were supplied with the necessary cisterns for rain storage (2 Chronicles 26:6, 10). The little realm had now an extension and prosperity to which it had been a stranger since the days of Solomon.

4. Uzziah's Leprosy and Retirement:

These successes came so rapidly that Uzziah had hardly passed his 40th year when a great personal calamity overtook him. In the earlier part of his career Uzziah had enjoyed and profited by the counsels of Zechariah, a man "who had understanding in the vision of God" (2 Chronicles 26:5), and during the lifetime of this godly monitor "be set himself to seek God." Now it happened to him as with his grandfather Jehoash, who, so long as his preserver Jehoiada lived, acted admirably, but, when he died, behaved like an ingrate, and killed his son (2 Kings 12:2 2 Chronicles 24:2, 22). So now that Zechariah was gone, Uzziah's heart was lifted up in pride, and he trespassed against Yahweh. In the great kingdoms of the East, the kings had been in the habit of exercising priestly as well as royal functions. Elated with his prosperity, Uzziah determined to exercise what he may have thought was his royal prerogative in burning incense on the golden altar of the temple. Azariah the high priest, with 80 others, offered stout remonstrance; but the king was only angry, and pressed forward with a censer in his hand, to offer the incense. Ere, however, he could scatter the incense on the coals, and while yet in anger, the white spots of leprosy showed themselves upon his forehead. Smitten in conscience, and thrust forth by the priests, he hastened away, and was a leper ever after (2 Chronicles 26:16-21).

Uzziah's public life was now ended. In his enforced privacy, he may still have occupied himself with his cattle and agricultural operations, "for he loved husbandry" (2 Chronicles 26:10); but his work in the government was over. Both Kings and Chronicles state in nearly identical words: "Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land" (2 Kings 15:5 2 Chronicles 26:21). Works of the same kind as those undertaken by Uzziah, namely, building military stations in the hills and forests of Judah, repairing the walls of city and temple, etc., are attributed to Jotham (2 Chronicles 27:3); the truth being that Jotham continued and completed the enterprises his father had undertaken.

5. Chronology of Reign:

The chronology of the reign of Uzziah presents peculiar difficulties, some of which, probably, cannot be satisfactorily solved. Reckoning upward from the fall of Samaria in 721 B.C., the Biblical data would suggest 759 as the first year of Jotham. If, as is now generally conceded, Jotham's regnal years are reckoned from the commencement of his regency, when his father had been stricken with leprosy, and if, as synchronisms seem to indicate, Uzziah was about 40 years of age at this time, we are brought for the year of Uzziah's accession to 783. His death, 52 years later, would occur in 731. (On the other hand, it is known that Isaiah, whose call was in the year of Uzziah's death, Isaiah 6:1, was already exercising his ministry in the reign of Jotham, Isaiah 1:1.) Another note of time is furnished by the statement that the earliest utterance of Amos the prophet was "two years before the earthquake" (Amos 1:1). This earthquake, we are told by Zechariah, was "in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah" (Zechariah 14:5). Josephus likewise embodies a tradition that the earthquake occurred at the moment of the king's entry into the temple (Ant., IX, x, 4). Indubitably the name of Uzziah was associated in the popular mind with this earthquake. If the prophecy of Amos was uttered a year or two before Jeroboam's death, and this is placed in 759 B.C., we are brought near to the date already given for Uzziah's leprosy (Jeroboam's date is put lower by others).

In 2 Kings 15 Uzziah is referred to as giving data for the accessions of the northern kings (15:8, Zechariah; 15:13, Shallum; 15:17, Menahem; 15:23, Pekahiah; 15:27, Pekah), but it is difficult to fit these synchronisms into any scheme of chronology, if taken as regnal years. Uzziah is mentioned as the father of Jotham in 2 Kings 15:32, 34 2 Chronicles 27:2, and as the grandfather of Ahaz in Isaiah 7:1. He was living when Isaiah began his ministry (Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 6:1); when Hoses prophesied (Hosea 1:1); and is the king in whose reign the afore-mentioned earthquake took place (Zechariah 14:5). His name occurs in the royal genealogies in 1 Chronicles 3:11 and Matthew 1:8, 9. The place of his entombment, owing to his having been a leper, was not in the sepulchers of the kings, but "in the garden of Uzza" (2 Kings 21:26; compare 2 Chronicles 26:23). Isaiah is stated to have written a life of Uzziah (2 Chronicles 26:22).

W. Shaw Caldecott

Strong's Hebrew

3203. Yekolyah -- "Yah has been able," mother of King Azariah
... "Yah has been able," mother of King Azariah. Transliteration: Yekolyah or Yekolyahu
or Yekileyah Phonetic Spelling: (yek-ol-yaw') Short Definition: Jechiliah. ...
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5839. Azaryah -- one of Daniel's companions
... 5838, 5839. Azaryah. 5840 . one of Daniel's companions. Transliteration: Azaryah
Phonetic Spelling: (az-ar-yaw') Short Definition: Azariah. ... Azariah. ...
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5838. Azaryah -- "Yah has helped," the name of a number of Isr.
... Transliteration: Azaryah or Azaryahu Phonetic Spelling: (az-ar-yaw') Short Definition:
Azariah. ... NASB Word Usage Azariah (47), Azaryahu (1). Azariah. ...
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5665. Abed Nego -- "servant of Nebo," Bab. name of one of Daniel's ...
... Abed-nego. (Aramaic) of foreign origin; Abed-Nego, the name of Azariah --
Abed-nego. 5664, 5665. Abed Nego. 5666 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Courage of Four Captives
... Among these young men were: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; but
the chief of the king's servants gave other names to them. ...
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In the Court of Babylon
... the king's palace. . . . "Now among these were of the children of Judah,
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. "Seeing in these ...
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On Heresies.
... [3158] Nay, in the case of Azariah and Uzziah, [3159] the latter of which was king
of Judah, but venturing to usurp the priesthood, and desiring to offer ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i on heresies.htm

The Brave Hebrew Boys.
... should be given them. Their names were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.
Daniel seems to have been their leader. We find "he ...
/.../anonymous/mother stories from the old testament/the brave hebrew boys.htm

The Call of Isaiah
... The long reign of Uzziah [also known as Azariah] in the land of Judah and Benjamin
was characterized by a prosperity greater than that of any other ruler since ...
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Youthful Confessors
... king.11. Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had
set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12. Prove ...
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Letter cxi. (November, AD 409. )
... 8. Pray, therefore, to God for them, and beseech Him to enable them to say such
things as the holy Azariah, whom we have mentioned, poured forth along with ...
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Answer to Objections: Signal Instances of Prayer
... It was on being heard that Ananiah and Azariah and Mishael became worthy to receive
a hissing rain and wind which kept the flame of the fire from taking effect ...
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The Content of Prayer: Its Four Moods
... " Of the second, examples are found in Daniel: "And Azariah drew himself up and
prayed thus, and opening his mouth amid the fire said . . . ...
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Letter H
... Received 1833 * Hale, Jesse "Received 1812 * Hales, John "Received 1820, Located
1825 * Hall, Albina "Received 1836 * Hall, Azariah "Received 1828 ...
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Subtopics

Azariah

Azariah: A Captive Returned from Babylon

Azariah: A Captive Returned from Babylon: Also Called Seraiah

Azariah: A High Priest

Azariah: A High Priest: Also Called Amariah

Azariah: A Levite

Azariah: A Levite: Called Uzziah

Azariah: A Prophet, Called Obed

Azariah: Captain of Solomon's Guards

Azariah: Chief of the Tribe of Ephraim

Azariah: Hebrew Name of Abed-Nego