2 Chronicles 26:15-17

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁵ Men in Jerusalem who had special skills built machines that could shoot arrows and big stones. Uzziah put them on the towers and at the corners of the walls around Jerusalem. God helped him in many ways, so that he became very famous and powerful.

Uzziah becomes proud and God punishes him

¹⁶ Uzziah was so powerful that he became proud. That caused him to lose his power. He began to turn away from the Lord his God. He went into the Lord's temple to burn incense on the special altar there. ¹⁷ Azariah and 80 other brave priests of the Lord went into the temple after him.