Chronicles II 26:20

20 And Azarias the chief priest, and the priests, turned at him, and, behold, he leprous in his forehead; and they got him hastily out thence, for he also hasted to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him.

Chronicles II 26:20 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 26:20

And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked
upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead
He was leprous all over his body, no doubt, but it appeared in his forehead very remarkably, and was seen by them all, who, without doubt, informed him of his case, and of which he soon became sensible:

and they thrust him out from thence;
the holy place, he being now unfit to be in a common dwelling house, or his own palace, and much less to be in the house of God:

yea, himself also hasted to go out, because the Lord had smitten him;
fearing, should he continue there, that something worse would befall him; the Targum is, the Word of the Lord. The leprosy was a disease sent immediately from God, as the case of Miriam, and this of Uzziah, show; and so the Persians ^F4 had a notion, that those had it who sinned against the sun, and for that reason, and which they accounted and worshipped as God.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Herodot. Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 138.

Chronicles II 26:20 In-Context

18 And they withstood Ozias the king, and said to him, not for thee, Ozias, to burn incense to the Lord, but only for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to sacrifice: go forth of the sanctuary, for thou hast departed from the Lord; and this shall not be for glory to thee from the Lord god.

19 And Ozias was angry, and in his hand the censer to burn incense in the temple: and when he was angry with the priests, then the leprosy rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, over the altar of incense.

20 And Azarias the chief priest, and the priests, turned at him, and, behold, he leprous in his forehead; and they got him hastily out thence, for he also hasted to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him.

21 And Ozias the king was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt a leper in a separate house; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Joathan his son over his kingdom, judging the people of the land.

22 And the rest of the acts of Ozias, the first and the last, written by Jessias the prophet.