2 Chronicles 26:19

19 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to make offering, and when he became angry with the priests a leprous disease broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense.

2 Chronicles 26:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 26:19

Then Uzziah was wroth
With the priests, and, as Josephus

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 says, threatened to kill them:

and had a censer in his hand to burn incense;
ready to do it, and resolved upon it:

and while he was wroth with the priests;
and expressing his indignation, and do what he would do to them, if they continued to oppose him:

the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the
house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar;
which seems not only to describe the position of the priests, being beside the altar of incense, to keep the king from it, when the leprosy was seen by them in his forehead, but the quarter from whence the stroke invisibly came. Josephus ^F3 says, there was earthquake at the same time, and a mountain was rent.

F2 Antiqu. l. 9. c. 10. sect. 4.
F3 lbid.

2 Chronicles 26:19 In-Context

17 But the priest Azariah went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor;

18 they withstood King Uzziah, and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to make offering to the Lord, but for the priests the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to make offering. Go out of the sanctuary; for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God."

19 Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to make offering, and when he became angry with the priests a leprous disease broke out on his forehead, in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense.

20 When the chief priest Azariah, and all the priests, looked at him, he was leprous in his forehead. They hurried him out, and he himself hurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him.

21 King Uzziah was leprous to the day of his death, and being leprous lived in a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. His son Jotham was in charge of the palace of the king, governing the people of the land.

Footnotes

• [a]. A term for several skin diseases; precise meaning uncertain