Numbers 16:40
40to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so athat no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the Lord, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the Lord said to him through Moses.Numbers 17:5
5And the staff of the man bwhom I choose shall sprout. Thus I will make to cease from me cthe grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against you.”2 Chronicles 26:16-21
Uzziah’s Pride and Punishment
16But when dhe was strong, ehe grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. 17But fAzariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor, 18and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, g“It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, hbut for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.” 19Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, ileprosy ▼▼ Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense. 20And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the Lord had struck him. 21 kAnd King Uzziah was a leper to the day of his death, and being a leper lived lin a separate house, for he was excluded from the house of the Lord. And Jotham his son was over the king’s household, governing the people of the land.
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