2 Chronicles 26:1-8

1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.1

2He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

3Sixteen 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.

4And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.

5And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.2

6And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.3

7And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbaal, and the Mehunims.

8And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.4