A.m. 8 Dec., 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uzziah was a mighty fine warrior
Just sixteen when he became king!
(Yeah, the Chronicles recorded it twice) [1,3]
And did right in the sight of the Lord,
Just like his daddy – before he backslid, (4)
But he prospered while he did the right thing. (5)
Went to war against those Philistines;
Broke down the walls of Gath and Jebneh,
And did the same to the walls of Ashdod.
Built cities among the Philistines; (6)
Fought Arabians and Meunites, too,
And took from the Ammonites tribute. (8)
(Oh, what a wacked out, crazy world!
You’d think they’d get a clue;
“Follow the Lord, whatever you do.”)
Uzziah built towers at the Corner Gate (9)
At the Valley Gate and a third at the Corner!
Built towers in the wilderness with cisterns;
Had all kind o’ critters t’ feed an’ water! (10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A.m. 8 Dec., 2021 Uzziah was a mighty fine warrior Just sixteen when he became king! (Yeah, the Chronicles recorded it twice) [1,3] And did right in the sight of the Lord, Just like his daddy – before he backslid, (4) But he prospered while he did the right thing. (5) Went to war against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5365\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}