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2 Chronicles 26:1
2 Chronicles 26:1 is verse 1 of 2 Chronicles chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Uzziah is also called Azariah; throughout this chapter; see 2 Kings 14:21.
King James Version
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
World English Bible
All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
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2 Chronicles 26:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Uzziah was the one who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Chronicles 22:1Then 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. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 33:25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
2 Kings 14:21Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings 15:1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah.
2 Kings 15:2He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
2 Kings 15:3And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.
2 Kings 15:4Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.
2 Kings 15:5And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
2 Kings 15:6As for the rest of the acts of Azariah, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
2 Kings 15:7And Azariah rested with his fathers and was buried near them in the City of David. And his son Jotham reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 3:12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
Matthew 1:8Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.
Matthew 1:9Uzziah was the father of Jotham, Jotham the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz the father of Hezekiah.