1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was only sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed Amaziah his father.
2 It was he who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his ancestors.
3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah, from Jerusalem.
4 He did what was right in the Lord’s sight, just as his father Amaziah had done.
5 He was prepared to seek God as long as Zechariah lived, who taught him to fear God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.
6 He went out and fought the Philistines and razed the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod, and built cities in the district of Ashdod and in Philistia.