Comentário sobre II Reis 15:5

Adonoy brought a plague upon the king. It is explained in Divrei Hayomim²II Divrei Hayomim 26:16-21. that he entered the Temple to burn incense on the Incense Altar.³He was punished with tzora'as for attempting to assume the role of the kohein gadol and burn incense on the altar. See II Divrei Hayomim 26-16:21 and Rashi in Bamidbar 17:5.

In Chronicles it says that Azariah came to the Beit Hamikdash out of anger with the priests and gave incense despite the priests' objections.

In a retirement house. He made himself a house in the cemetery,⁴The word חפשי means freedom. The Gemara in Maseches Horiyos 10a explains that Uzziyohu became “free” of the duties of being king. Targum indicates that he lived outside the walls of Yerusholayim. The reason is because a metzora is forced to live in isolation. He was therefore unable to attend to his royal duties and was thus “freed” from his responsibilities. ⁵The house was in the cemetery because our Rabbis taught in Maseches Nedarim 12b that a metzora is accounted as dead. And like the dead who is free from the many toils of life, as it states in Tehilim 88:6, “I am [considered] among the dead who are free,” so is a metzora. as it is stated, ”I am [considered] among the dead who are free.”⁶Tehilim 88:6. In [Talmud] Yerushalmi.

As if to say, he resigned as leader of the kingdom, and was exempt from work. And this is like what our rabbis say, may they be remembered for a blessing, that kingship is like slavery because of the large amount of work required.

Our sages of blessed memory said in Horayot:10, that being a King is work; You need to carry the burdens of the nation, listen to them, and judge their cases in court whether you want to or not. If being a King is work, and the leprosy caused him to lived alone, then he was free from the work of being a king. Therefore, it was called a House of Freedom. Alternatively, the sages said this 'house of freedom' was a cemetery as it says in the verse (Psalms 88:6) "...among the dead who are free".

he was appointed over the palace as a judge who judged the nation in place of the king.