A moment in scripture
2 Chronicles 26:1
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Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
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The surrounding passage
- 2 Chronicles 26:2
He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 26:3
Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.