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Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in the LORD’s house, beside the altar of incense.
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Verse 19. Forehead. So that it could not be concealed. According to the rigour of the law, such an offender was to be slain. Numbers 3:10 and 18:7. The leprosy was considered as equivalent, and is styled destruction, (verse 16,) and death. Isaiah 7:1. Menochius. See 4 Kennicott. 15:6.
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