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2 Chronicles 26 · a question people ask

Is Uzziah the same king as 2 Kings' Azariah?

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The Bible names this king both ways. 2 Chronicles says, "All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah" (26:1), and 2 Kings has the same words with the other name: "All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah" (2 Kings 14:21). 2 Kings calls Jotham's father "Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah" (2 Kings 15:1), and also says, "Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign" (2 Kings 15:32). 1 Chronicles lists "Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son" (1 Chronicles 3:12), and Matthew has "Joram became the father of Uzziah. Uzziah became the father of Jotham" (Matthew 1:8-9). Isaiah, Hosea and Amos date their words "in the days of Uzziah" (Isaiah 1:1; Hosea 1:1; Amos 1:1). None of these verses says why there are two names, and these notes don't guess. In this chapter the priest who goes in after the king is also named Azariah (26:17); nothing joins him to the king.

The verses

“All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.”
2 Chronicles 26:1 · World English Bible
“All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.”
2 Kings 14:21 · World English Bible
“In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.”
2 Kings 15:1 · World English Bible
“In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign.”
2 Kings 15:32 · World English Bible

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2 Chronicles 26: Helped until he was strong

2 Kings says only, "The LORD struck the king" (2 Kings 15:5). 2 Chronicles tells what came before: a king who "was marvelously helped until he was strong" (26:15) went into the temple to burn incense, and the leprosy broke out on his forehead "beside the altar of incense" (26:19).

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