3. Uzziah was 16 years old when he became king, and he ruled for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
4. He did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, just as his father Amaziah had done.
5. He sought God as long as Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, was alive. And as long as he sought the Lord, God gave him success.
6. He marched against the Philistines and broke down the walls of Gath, Jabneh, and Ashdod. Then he rebuilt towns near Ashdod and elsewhere among the Philistines.
7. God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs who inhabited Gur, and the Meunites.