Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Chronicles 26:21

21 And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death , and dwelt in a † several house being a leper , for he was cut off from the house of the LORD: and Jotham his son was over the kings house, judging the people of the land.

God would have this Leprosy to be incurable, as a lasting monument of his Anger against such presumptuous Invaders of the Priests office.

As he was obliged to do by Law, Levit. 13. 46. which he durst not now resist, being under the hand and stroke of God, and under the fear of further and worse plagues, if he did so.

So the following words are a reason of the former; he dwelt in a several house, because he might not come into the Temple or Courts, nor consequently into any publick Assembly, or the society of others. Or, and therefore, as the Hebrew Chi oft signifies: and the Particle and is oft understood. So it is an inference from the next foregoing words, He was a Leper, and therefore he was cut off, &c. He who could not content himself with Gods allowance, but usurped the Priests place and office, is now deprived of the priviledge of the meanest of his People. A just and most suitable Judgment.

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