V.1-15 Uzziah has a great lesson for us too. He turns to the Lord, and these 15 verses tell us how the Lord helped him. So long as he looked to the Lord, he was helped (v. 5). We would think that a man who saw God helping him so noticeably would never turn away.
V.16-23 But such ungrateful creatures are we, that when things go well with us, we forget the Lord. What this king did was very serious. No one but a priest could go into God’s presence in the temple. But his heart is so lifted up with pride and self-confidence that he thinks he can do what he wants.
V.17-18 It says they were brave men. To be faithful to God is to be a brave man.
V.19 When we are in the wrong on spiritual matters, we often get angry. Notice what part of his body was affected by the leprosy!
V.20-21 His dreadful end.
V.23 He was not buried with the other kings, but out in a field by himself!