1. And all the people of Judah took Uzziah and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah when he was sixteen years old.
2. He built Eloth and restored it to Judah after Amaziah the king slept with his fathers.
3. Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he was king in Jerusalem for fifty-two years. The name of his mother was Jekoliah from Jerusalem.
4. And he did what was correct in the eyes of the Lord as everything his father Amaziah had done.
5. And he sought after God in the days of Zechariah, the one who instructed him in the fear of the Lord. And in the days that he sought after the Lord, God caused him to succeed.
6. He went out to make war with the Philistines, and he broke through the walls at Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod. Then he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines.
7. And God brought him aid against the Philistines and Arabians, those living in Gur Baal, and the Meunites.