1. THEN ALL the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2. He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after Amaziah slept with his fathers.
3. Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began his fifty-two-year reign in Jerusalem. His mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
4. He did right in the Lord's sight, to the extent of all that his father Amaziah had done.
5. He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the things of God; and as long as he sought (inquired of, yearned for) the Lord, God made him prosper.
6. He went out against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, of Jabneh, and of Ashdod, and built cities near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.
7. And God helped him against the Philistines, and the Arabs who dwelt in Gur-baal and the Meunim.
8. The Ammonites paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread abroad even to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.