2 Chronicles 26:17-19
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As the king, not even he has the right to burn incense on the incense altar. Only priests could lawfully do this.
17 Azariah the priest and 80 other brave priests of the Eternal followed the king into the temple to stop him.
Priests: 18 Uzziah, you cannot burn incense to the Eternal. Only the priests, the sons of Aaron, have been consecrated for that action. Leave the temple now. You have sinned and will no longer be blessed by the Eternal One, the True God.
19 Uzziah was furious at the priests for forbidding him, the king, to do something. As he stood next to the incense altar in the Eternal’s temple holding the censer, the king’s forehead erupted with leprosy, an inflamed skin disease.
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