Holy Scripture
2 Kings 15:1
A church father on this verse
“In the book of Chronicles [it is written]: Uzziah "did what was right in the sight of the Lord, just as his father David, and God made him prosper." "He built" fortresses "and palaces and high towers which were reinforced with iron bolts." "But when he had become strong, he grew proud; he became an infidel to the Lord…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel Uzziah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
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— 2 Kings 15:1 —
2Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3And he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all things that Amaziah his father did.