1. All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was only sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed Amaziah his father.
2. It was he who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his ancestors.
3. Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah, from Jerusalem.
4. He did what was right in the Lord’s sight, just as his father Amaziah had done.
5. He was prepared to seek God as long as Zechariah lived, who taught him to fear God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
6. He went out and fought the Philistines and razed the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod, and built cities in the district of Ashdod and in Philistia.