He Was Marvellously Helped
The book of Isaiah begins this way, “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah” (Isaiah 1:1). This tells us that the king of Judah at the time Isaiah was called as a prophet was Uzziah, which the prophet also highlighted in his great vision: “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple” (Isaiah 6:1). In the book of 2 Kings, this king was called Azariah: “In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem” (2 Kings 15:1-2). But in the book of 2 Chronicles, he was called Uzziah: “Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah” (2 Chronicles 26:1). The scripture help gives ...