2 Chronicles 26:17

17 And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men,

2 Chronicles 26:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 26:17

And Azariah the priest went in after him
To hinder him from doing it, and to persuade him to go out. This was the high priest, as appears from ( 2 Chronicles 26:20 ) and is thought to be the same that is spoken of in ( 1 Chronicles 6:10 )

and with him eighty priests of the Lord, that were valiant men;
not only able bodied men, but men of spirit and courage, and zealous for the honour of God.

2 Chronicles 26:17 In-Context

15 And he made in Jerusalem engines of diverse kinds, which he placed in the towers, and in the corners of the walls, to shoot arrows, and great stones: and his name went forth far abroad, for the Lord helped him, and had strengthened him.

16 But when he was made strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he neglected the Lord his God: and going into the temple of the Lord, he had a mind to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

17 And immediately Azarias the priest going in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, most valiant men,

18 Withstood the king and said: It doth not belong to thee, Ozias, to burn incense to the Lord, but to the priests, that is, to the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated for this ministry: go out of the sanctuary, do not despise: for this thing shall not be accounted to thy glory by the Lord God.

19 And Ozias was angry, and holding in his hand the censer to burn incense, threatened the priests. And presently there rose a leprosy in his forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord at the altar of incense.