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2 Chronicles 26 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:1 - Then all the people of the land took Ozias, and he was sixteen years old, and they made him king in the room of his father Amasias.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:2 - He built Ælath, he recovered it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:3 - Ozias began to reign at the age of sixteen years, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechelia of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:4 - And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Amasias his father did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:5 - And he sought the Lord in the days of Zacharias, who understood the fear of the Lord; and in his days he sought the Lord, and the Lord prospered him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:6 - And he went out and fought against the Philistines, and pulled down the walls of Geth, and the walls of Jabner, and the walls of Azotus, and he built cities near Azotus, and among the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:7 - And the Lord strengthened him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt on the rock, and against the Minæans.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:8 - And the Minæans gave gifts to Ozias; and his fame spread as far as the entering in of Egypt, for he strengthened himself exceedingly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:9 - And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem, both at the gate of the corner and at the valley gate, and at the corners, and he fortified them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:10 - And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle in the low country and in the plain; and vinedressers in the mountain country and in Carmel: for he was a husbandman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:11 - And Ozias had a host of warriors, and that went out orderly to war, and returned orderly in number; and their number was made by the hand of Jeiel the scribe, and Maasias the judge, by the hand of Ananias the king's deputy.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:12 - The whole number of the chiefs of families of the mighty men of war was two thousand six hundred;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:13 - and with them was a warrior force, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred: these waged war mightily to help the king against his enemies.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:14 - And Ozias prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and breastplates, and bows, and slings for stones.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15 - And he made in Jerusalem machines invented by a wise contriver, to be upon the towers and upon the corners, to cast darts and great stones: and the fame of their preparation was heard at a distance; for he was wonderfully helped, till he was strong.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:16 - And when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction; and he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:17 - And there went in after him Azarias the priest, and with him eighty priests of the Lord, mighty men.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:18 - And they withstood Ozias the king, and said to him, It is 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:19 - And Ozias was angry, and in his hand was 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:20 - And Azarias the chief priest, and the other priests, turned to look at him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead; and they got him hastily out thence, for he also hasted to go out, because the Lord had rebuked him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:21 - And Ozias the king was a leper to the day of his death, and he dwelt as a leper in a separate house; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Joathan his son was set over his kingdom, judging the people of the land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:22 - And the rest of the acts of Ozias, the first and the last, are written by Jessias the prophet.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:23 - And Ozias slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the field of the burial place of the kings, for they said, He is a leper; and Joatham his son reigned in his stead.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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