17And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the LORD, that were valiant men:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Johanan begat Azariah,(he it is that executed the priest's office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)
Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.
And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
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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