Do you know that when they called him by the name Uzziah, you want to know what the name

Uzziah means, Yahweh is my strength?

Every time, God made absolutely sure every time somebody said his name, King Uzziah, King God is your

strength. Hey, King God is your strength. Could you sign this edict, please? King, God is your strength? Only he forgot God was his

strength. All right, go back to Second Chronicles 26.

I want to remind you where we've been.

So the leprosy or the skin disease has broken out on the forehead of Uzziah. The priests have gone out, dragging him out,

and he himself indeed was anxious to leave. And so where it picks up is that we are told then

in verse 21, and I'm going to read to the end of it, So King Uzziah was diseased to the time of his death.

He lived in quarantine with a serious skin disease and was excluded from access to the Lord's

temple while his son Jotham was over the king's household governing the people of the land.

So his son is going to become king upon his death. But what would happen is that there would be a co-regent if something was wrong with the king.

In this case, the king had to be placed in quarantine.

He was still actually king, but his son was already in the regency.

He was already actively hands-on reigning.

So then he would become the actual king with Uzziah's departure from this life. And so it says in verse 22, now the prophet Isaiah,

son of Amaz, wrote about the rest of the events in Uzziah's reign from beginning to end.

Uzziah rested with his fathers and he was buried with his fathers in the burial ground of the king's cemetery,

for they said he has a skin disease.

His son Jotham became king in his place.

This was his epitaph.

He has a skin disease.

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