Text: 2 Chronicles 26:3-23
OT Text Referred to: 2 Kings 15:1-7
Subject: Uzziah/Azariah's reign — parallel account with major expansion
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Direct Quotation
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: These are parallel accounts with the most dramatic difference in coverage of any Kings-Chronicles pair. Kings devotes only seven verses to Uzziah's 52-year reign, noting his leprosy without explaining its cause. The Chronicler expands to 21 verses, describing Uzziah's military strength, his agricultural innovations, his 307,500-man army, and his pride-driven attempt to burn incense in the temple — a role reserved for Aaronic priests. When eighty priests confronted him, Uzziah grew angry, and leprosy (צָרַעַת, tsara'at) broke out on his forehead "before the priests in the house of the LORD." The Chronicler's account transforms an unexplained affliction into a paradigmatic lesson about the boundaries between royal and priestly authority.