16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-23)Here is the only blot we find on the name of king Uzziah, and it is such a one as lies not on any other of the kings. Whoredom, murder, oppression, persecution, and especially idolatry, gave characters to the bad kings and some of them blemishes to the good ones, David himself not excepted, witness the matter of Uriah. But we find not Uzziah charged with any of these; and yet he transgressed again…
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