person · P0409
Uziyahu עזיהו
The long-reigning king in whose death-year Yeshayahu (Yeshayahu) saw his Temple vision. Kings calls him Azaryah, Chronicles Uziyahu: builder, farmer, and army-organizer, until, grown strong, he entered the sanctuary to burn incense and tzaraat broke out on his forehead; he lived apart while his son Yotam governed. His fifty-two years are the traditional chain's great co-regency seam.
I. Who
- Hebrew
- עזיהו
- Also known as
- Uzziah, Azaryah, Azariah
- Era
- bible
- Parents
- Amatzyah
- Children
- Yotam
II. When
- Traditional
- c. 3099–3167 AM (reign counted 3115–3167, fifty-two years; sixteen at accession)
- Academic
- c. 792–740 BCE (sole reign from c. 767)
- Lifespan (traditional)
- ≈68 years
- Precision
- approximate
III. Where
- Places
- Jerusalem
V. How do we know
| Claim | Evidence | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| In the twenty-seventh year of Yeravam king of Israel, Azaryah ben Amatzyah king of Yehudah became king: sixteen years old at accession, he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem.
Kings calls him Azaryah in the superscription.
|
biblical | ★★★★★ | |
| When he grew strong his heart grew proud: he entered the Temple to burn incense on the incense altar, and as he raged at the priests the tzaraat broke out on his forehead; he was a metzora until his death, dwelling in the free house, while Yotam his son was over the house, judging the people of the land. | biblical | ★★★★★ | |
| A Second Temple-period Aramaic plaque (the "Uzziah Tablet," Israel Museum) reads: "Hither were brought the bones of Uzziah king of Judah — do not open" — evidence of a late reburial of remains held to be his, not a contemporary inscription.
The plaque is roughly eight centuries later than the king; it attests the tradition of his tomb, not his reign.
|
external archaeology | ★★★☆☆ | |
| The reign shown, 3115–3167 AM, is the atlas's documented seam: Yehudah's summed regnal years from the split (2964) exceed the elapsed time to Chizkiyahu's accession (3199) by nineteen years, and this reconstruction absorbs the whole overlap here, counting Uziyahu's fifty-two years from within Amatzyah's reign — as the text itself suggests, since "all the people of Yehudah took Uziyahu, sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father" after Amatzyah's capture at Beit Shemesh.
The cited sources establish relative chronology or regnal duration; they do not state the absolute AM range.
|
tradition reconstruction | ★★☆☆☆ |