2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah. Nearly all of this chapter is additional to the record of Uzziah’s reign found in 2 Kings 14:21, 22 and 15:1-7. The separation of the record of Uzziah’s reign into these two sections in Kings, with the narrative of Jeroboam’s reign coming in between (2 Kings 14:23-29), has led some to the conclusion that the items concerning Uzziah that are found in 2 Kings 14:21, 22 occur as an appendage to the account of Amaziah’s reign, and that the second introduction of Uzziah’s reign, coming after the account of Jeroboam II, may indicate that Uzziah had a period of coregency with his father, with the second entry referring to the beginning of his sole reign. The name Uzziah is used uniformly in Chronicles, except in 1 Chron. 3:12, where the name Azariah appears in a genealogy. In the Assyrian records the term Azriau, now generally identified as Azariah, is used. Except for the spelling “Azariah,” 2 Chron. 26:1, 2 is identical with 2 Kings 14:21, 22.