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2 Chronicles 26:1

in 2 Chronicles 26

All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

KJV

Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 26

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Uzziah - This form of the name is found uniformly in Chronicles (except 1Ch 3:12) and in the prophets. The writer of Kings prefers the form Azariah. Uzziah has been regarded as a phonetic corruption of the real name used by the common people.

This site's exposition

made him king in the room of his father Amaziah

on 2 Chronicles 26:1-3

Judah crowns a king of sixteen and Chronicles calls him Uzziah throughout, the form the prophets use, where Kings prefers Azariah at 2 Ki 14:21. The parallel account at 2 Ki 15:1-7 gives this reign seven verses; Chronicles gives it twenty-three, adding the military buildup, the husbandry, and the full scene at the incense altar that Kings only reports as a stroke. Jecoliah of Jerusalem names his mother, one of the small notices Chronicles keeps and Kings drops.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah,.... Of this and the three following verses, see the notes on 2Ki 14:21 where Uzziah is called Azariah. See Gill on 2Ki 14:21, 2Ki 14:22, 2Ki 15:2, 2Ki 15:3.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The people of Judah took Uzziah - They all agreed to place this son on his father’s throne.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקְח֞וּand they took

    vaiyikchuH3947966 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • עַ֤ם[the] people of

    ʾamH59711873 times

  • יְהוּדָה֙Judah

    yehudahH3063819 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • עֻזִּיָּ֔הוּUzziah

    ʾuziyahuH581827 times

  • וְה֕וּאand he

    vehu'H19311879 times

  • בֶּן־[was] a son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • שֵׁ֥שׁsix-

    sheshH8337216 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen

    ʾesrehH6240338 times

  • שָׁנָ֑הyear[s]

    shanahH8141877 times

  • וַיַּמְלִ֣יכוּand they made king

    vaiyamlikhuH4427348 times

  • אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • תַּ֖חַתin place of

    tachatH8478505 times

  • אָבִ֥יוfather his

    ʾavivH11212 times

  • אֲמַצְיָֽהוּ׃Amaziah

    ʾamatzyahuH55840 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 22:1

    Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons.…

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 36:1

      Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Chronicles 21:16–17

      Then the LORD stirred against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and Arabs who lived near the Cushites.

    • 2 Kings 8:24–29

      And Jehoram rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the City of David. And his son Ahaziah reigned in his place.

    • 2 Chronicles 33:25

      But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 3:12

    Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 14:21

      Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

    • 2 Kings 14:1

      In the second year of the reign of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz over Israel, Amaziah son of Joash became king of Judah.

    • 2 Kings 15:30

      Then Hoshea son of Elah led a conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah. In the twentieth year of Jotham son of Uzziah, Hoshea attacked Pekah, killed him, and reigned in his place.

    • 2 Chronicles 25:1

      Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil, The Books of the Chronicles.