Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

If you didn't have the chance to look this up, it might have been a bit confusing to you,

but today we have another nickname tag situation happening with King Azaraya of Judah.

He also goes by the name Uzaya.

When we read about him in second Kings, he's Azaraya, but when we read about him in second

Chronicles, he's Uzaya.

He's just taken over after his father's death and we don't hear much about him except

that he's a pretty good king.

High places notwithstanding because they're still standing, but then things take a turn.

After his people maybe invent the catapult and a series of military victories making

rich and famous, Azaraya grows prideful.

He decides he wants to burn incense in the temple in Jerusalem, which is a big no-no unless

you're a priest.

When the text describes this by saying, he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, it uses

the same word that is often used for marital unfaithfulness.

The actual priests are a guest and 81 of them, including one who shares the name Azaraya,

rush into rebuke him, but he's unrepentant.

And when he grows angry with the priests, God strikes him with leprosy.

What's interesting to me about this text is that it seems to indicate he never actually

lights the censor to burn the incense.

They stop him before he can.

And if that's true, then even though he doesn't physically commit the sin here, his heart

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