While Uzziah was in this state, and making preparation [for futurity], he was corrupted in his mind by pride, and became insolent, and this on account of that abundance which he had of things that will soon perish, and despised that power which is of eternal duration (which consisted in piety towards God, and in the observation of the laws); so he fell by occasion of the good success of his affairs, and was carried headlong into those sins of his father, which the splendor of that prosperity he enjoyed, and the glorious actions he had done, led him into, while he was not able to govern himself well about them. Accordingly, when a remarkable day was come, and a general festival was to be celebrated, he put on the holy garment, and went into the temple to offer incense to God upon the golden altar, which he was prohibited to do by Azariah the high priest, who had fourscore priests with him, and who told him that it was not lawful for him to offer sacrifice, and that "none besides the posterity of Aaron were permitted so to do." And when they cried out that he must go out of the temple, and not transgress against God, he was wroth at them, and threatened to kill them, unless they would hold their peace. In the mean time a great earthquake shook the ground and a rent was made in the temple, and the bright rays of the sun shone through it, and fell upon the king's face, insomuch that the leprosy seized upon him immediately. And before the city, at a place called Eroge, half the mountain broke off from the rest on the west, and rolled itself four furlongs, and stood still at the east mountain, till the roads, as well as the king's gardens, were spoiled by the obstruction. Now, as soon as the priests saw that the king's face was infected with the leprosy, they told him of the calamity he was under, and commanded that he should go out of the city as a polluted person. Hereupon he was so confounded at the sad distemper, and sensible that he was not at liberty to contradict, that he did as he was commanded, and underwent this miserable and terrible punishment for an intention beyond what befitted a man to have, and for that impiety against God which was implied therein. So he abode out of the city for some time, and lived a private life, while his son Jotham took the government; after which he died with grief and anxiety at what had happened to him, when he had lived sixty-eight years, and reigned of them fifty-two; and was buried by himself in his own gardens.

Dan zult ^[13]gijlieden ^[14]vlieden ^[15][door] de vallei ^[16]Mijner bergen (want deze vallei der bergen zal reiken tot ^[17]Azal), ^[18]en gij zult vlieden, gelijk als gij vloodt ^[19]voor de aardbeving ^[20]in de dagen van Uzzia, den koning van Juda; ^[21]dan zal de HEERE, mijn God, komen, [en] ^[22]al de heiligen ^[23]met U, [o HEERE!]
^13. O mijne uitverkorenen.
^14. Dat is, haastelijk toelopen, gelijk de vluchtenden plegen te doen. Of, men kan het verstaan van de goddeloze Joden, die door schrik en vrees van straf wegvluchten zouden en ruimte maken voor het aankomende volk des Heeren.
^15. Anders: tot de vallei mijner bergen; dat is, tot mijne kerk.
^16. Of, der bergen; dat is, dier twee delen van den Olijfberg, die Ik met het doorspijten van den Olijfberg, gemaakt heb.
^17. Anders: tot den berg, dien Hij afgezonderd, of verkoren heeft, te weten, den berg Zion. Hij, te weten, de Heere. De zin is: Daar zal een wijde baan zijn, alzo dat een ieder wel plaats en ruimte hebben zal om de kerk van Christus te kunnen komen. Wat den berg Azal aangaat, is onzeker waar hij ligt, want van dezelven wordt
nergens meer gedacht.
^18. Anders: gij zult vinden, zeg ik, gelijk, enz.
^19. Of, vanwege de aardbeving, of uit vrees der aardbeving. Zie Amos 1:1.
^20. Zie de koning Uzzia, 2 Kron.26:19.
^21. Dit spreekt de profeet in zijn eigen persoon. De zin is: Na de eerste verschijning van Christus, in het vlees, zal de andere volgen ten jongsten dage.
^22. Dat is, alle engelen. Zie Dan.8:13.
^23. Hier wendt de profeet zijne aanspraak tot Christus, hetwelk, gelijk sommigen menen, daarom geschiedt, omdat de profeet wel geweten heeft, dat die boze Joden hem niet geloven zouden. Verg. Joel 3:11.