Uzziah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Uzziah
     a contracted form of Azari'ah the Lord is my strength. (1.) One
     of Amaziah's sons, whom the people made king of Judah in his
     father's stead (2 Kings 14:21; 2 Chr. 26:1). His long reign of
     about fifty-two years was "the most prosperous excepting that of
     Jehosaphat since the time of Solomon." He was a vigorous and


     able ruler, and "his name spread abroad, even to the entering in
     of Egypt" (2 Chr. 26:8, 14). In the earlier part of his reign,
     under the influence of Zechariah, he was faithful to Jehovah,
     and "did that which was right in the sight of the Lord" (2 Kings
     15:3; 2 Chr. 26:4, 5); but toward the close of his long life
     "his heart was lifted up to his destruction," and he wantonly
     invaded the priest's office (2 Chr. 26:16), and entering the
     sanctuary proceeded to offer incense on the golden altar.
     Azariah the high priest saw the tendency of such a daring act on
     the part of the king, and with a band of eighty priests he
     withstood him (2 Chr. 26:17), saying, "It appertaineth not unto
     thee, Uzziah, to burn incense." Uzziah was suddenly struck with
     leprosy while in the act of offering incense (26:19-21), and he
     was driven from the temple and compelled to reside in "a several
     house" to the day of his death (2 Kings 15:5, 27; 2 Chr. 26:3).
     He was buried in a separate grave "in the field of the burial
     which belonged to the kings" (2 Kings 15:7; 2 Chr. 26:23). "That
     lonely grave in the royal necropolis would eloquently testify to
     coming generations that all earthly monarchy must bow before the
     inviolable order of the divine will, and that no interference
     could be tolerated with that unfolding of the purposes of God,
     which, in the fulness of time, would reveal the Christ, the true
     High Priest and King for evermore" (Dr. Green's Kingdom of
     Israel, etc.).
     
       (2.) The father of Jehonathan, one of David's overseers (1
     Chr. 27:25).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Uzziah, Uzziel, the strength, or kid, of the Lord