2 Chronicles 26:17
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
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Gill's Exposition
Then Uzziah was wroth,.... With the priests, and, as Josephus (b) says, threatened to kill them:
and had a censer in his hand to burn incense; ready to do it, and resolved upon it:
and while he…
Here is the only blot we find on the name of king Uzziah, and it is such a one as lies not on any other of the kings. Whoredom, murder, oppression, persecution, and especially idolatry, gave…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Azariah the priest i.e. the high-priest (2Ch 26:20). He cannot be identified certainly with any priest in the list given 1Ch 6:4-15 (5:30 41, Heb.).
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