2 Chronicles 26:21

In context

19Uzziah was enraged. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was raging at the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, in front of the priests, in the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense. 20When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned toward him and saw the leprosy on his forehead, they hurried him out; and he himself was in haste to leave, because Yahweh had struck him. 21King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, a leper, cut off from the house of Yahweh, while Jotham his son was over the king’s house, governing the people of the land. 22The rest of Uzziah’s acts, from first to last, were written down by Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet. 23Uzziah lay down with his ancestors, and they buried him near his ancestors in the burial field belonging to the kings, for they said, “He is a leper.” And Jotham his son became king in his place.