Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 27:2

"And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: howbeit he entered not into the temple of Jehovah. And the people did yet corruptly." — 2 Chronicles 27:2 (ASV)

Howbeit he entered not. — The chronicler adds this reservation to the preceding general statement. The author of Kings, having said nothing of Uzziah’s sacrilege, had no need to make such an exception.

And the people did yet corruptly. — They continued to act corruptly; a paraphrase of what we read in 2 Kings 15:35, “the people still used to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.” We know further, from the extant utterances of the prophets of those days, that a deep-seated moral corruption was sapping the strength of the nation. (Compare Micah 3:10-12 and Hosea 4:1-2.)