17 The priest Azariah,(A) along with eighty brave priests of the Lord, went in after him. 18 They took their stand(B) against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the Lord(C)—only the consecrated priests, the descendants of Aaron, have the right to offer incense.(D) Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully! You will not receive honor from the Lord God.”

19 Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the Lord’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin disease(E) broke out on his forehead.

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