And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper,.... See Gill on Kg2 15:5, for he was cut off from the house of the Lord; not, suffered to enter into that, because of his uncleanness: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land; see Kg2 15:5.