| II Chronicles 26:19
| And Ozias was angry; and holding in his hand the censer to burn incense, threatened the priests. And presently there arose a leprosy in his forehead before the priests, in the house of the Lord, at the altar of incense.
| Forehead. So that it could not be concealed. According to the rigour of the law, such an offender was to be slain, Numbers 3:10., and 18:7. The leprosy was considered as equivalent, and is styled destruction, (ver. 16,) and death, Isaias 6:1. (Menochius) See 4 Kings 15:6.
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