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17 Azariah the priest went in after him. He was followed by eighty priests of the Lord, brave men. 18 They confronted King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord. That is for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, because you have been unfaithful. This action will not result in any praise for you from the Lord God.”

19 Uzziah became angry. He had a censer for burning incense in his hand. When he became angry with the priests, leprosy[a] broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests, beside the altar of incense in the House of the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 26:19 The Hebrew word covers a wider range of skin diseases than the disease presently known as leprosy.