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But Amasias would have his way; the Lord’s will was that he should fall into his enemy’s hands, to punish him for worshipping the gods of Edom. (2 Chronicles 25, 20)
But ever since he forsook the Lord, fresh troubles befell him. A conspiracy was made against him in Jerusalem, and when he fled to Lachis they sent in pursuit of him and put him to death there; (2 Chronicles 25, 27)
He obeyed the Lord’s will, as faithfully as once his father Amasias did. (2 Chronicles 26, 4)
As long as Zacharias lived, a man taught by divine visions, Ozias had recourse to the Lord, and as long as he had recourse to the Lord, all went well with him. (2 Chronicles 26, 5)
At Jerusalem, he contrived engines of many sorts, poised on tower or on wall-corner, that discharged arrows and great boulders. Far spread his fame, such help the Lord gave him, and such greatness. (2 Chronicles 26, 15)
But this greatness of his made his heart proud, to his own undoing. He slighted the Lord his God; into the temple he would go, and there burn incense at the censing-altar. (2 Chronicles 26, 16)
to withstand the royal will. Not for thee, Ozias, they cried, to burn incense in the Lord’s honour; that is for the priests, the sons of Aaron, that are set apart for this office. Leave this holy place, and profane it no more; thou wilt win no favour from the Lord God by such doings as these. (2 Chronicles 26, 18)
At this, Ozias turned round in anger, the censer already in his hand with the incense ready for lighting, and began to threaten them. And with that, in the priests’ presence, there in the Lord’s house, by the censing-altar, the mark of leprosy started out on his brow. (2 Chronicles 26, 19)
No time they lost, Azarias and his fellow priests, that sign once seen, in thrusting out the leper; he himself, feeling the stroke of the Lord’s present judgement, was in haste to be gone. (2 Chronicles 26, 20)
He obeyed the Lord’s will, imitating the piety of Ozias, but not his sacrilege;✻ among the people, there were corrupt ways of worship still. (2 Chronicles 27, 2)
He it was built the high gate that leads into the Lord’s house, and added much to the Ophel wall; (2 Chronicles 27, 3)
Such greatness Joatham achieved by his obedience to the Lord’s will. (2 Chronicles 27, 6)
