Tenth king of Judah, also called Azariah (2 Kings 14:21-22; 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles 26), who reigned fifty-two years (c. 792-740 BC) — one of the longest reigns in Judean history. Uzziah did that which was right in the sight of the LORD; he sought God in the days of Zechariah the seer, and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper (2 Chronicles 26:4-5). His reign produced extraordinary military and economic strength: he warred against the Philistines and built fortified cities; he subdued the Arabians and Meunims; the Ammonites brought tribute; his name went abroad even to Egypt; he built fortified towers in Jerusalem; he loved husbandry and had vineyards and gardens; he raised a standing army of 307,500 men under captains; he invented engines for the towers (2 Chronicles 26:6-15). The tragedy of Uzziah is his late-life pride: when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction, and he went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense — the priestly office Uzziah had no right to assume (2 Chronicles 26:16-21). When the high priest Azariah and eighty priests of the LORD withstood him, Uzziah grew angry; while he was raging at the priests, leprosy rose up in his forehead, and the LORD struck him a leper unto the day of his death. He dwelt in a several house, his son Jotham governing the kingdom in his stead. The death of King Uzziah is the calendar marker of Isaiah's famous vision in Isaiah 6 (In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up).