According to the Bible who reigned in the 8th century BC and made engines to shoot arrows and great stones?

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Uzziah. NOTE: Doubtless it was a remembrance of the humiliation which his father had undergone which made Uzziah (Azariah) strengthen his position. He subdued the Philistines and the Arabs in Gur, and put the Ammonites to tribute (2Ch 26:7,8). He "built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turnings (Septuagint) of the walls, and fortified them" (2Ch 26:9). He is also described as having made in Jerusalem "engines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and upon the battlements, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones" (2Ch 26:15). http://cf.blueletterbible.org/isbe/isbe.cfm?id=4991 [Note & Link added March 17, 2008 -- Zbeckabee] Jul 07 00, 10:26 PM

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