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1 Then all the people of Iuda toke Uzzia, which was sixteene yeres olde, & made him king in the roome of his father Amaziahu. 2 And he built Eloth, and brought it againe to Iuda, after that the king was layde to sleepe with his fathers. 3 Sixteene yeres olde was Uzzia when he began to raigne, and he raigned fiftie and two yeres in Hierusalem: His mothers name also was Iecholia, of Hierusalem. 4 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lorde, according to all as did his father Amaziahu. 5 And it came to passe that he sought God in the dayes of Zachariahu, who had vnderstanding in the visions of God: And as long as he sought the Lorde, God made him to prosper. 6 And he went to battaile against the Philistines, and brake downe the wall of Geth, and the wall of Iabne, and the wall of Asdod, & built cities about Asdod and among the Philistines. 7 And God holpe him against the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur baal and Hamehunim. 2 Chronicles 26:1-7, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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