III. AZARIAH, High-Priest also of the Jews, in the reign of Uzziah King of Judah. This Prince having undertaken to offer incense to the Lord, Azariah opposed 2 Chron. xxvi. 17.him with vigour; and the hand of God fell heavily on King Uzziah, and smote him with a leprosy. They carried him immediately out of the Temple, and he dwelt without the City, separated from the conversation of mankind to the day of his death.
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