²¹ All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. ²² He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

Azariah, King of Judah^(A)

15 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king. ² He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jekoliah from Jerusalem. ³ He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. ⁴ But the high places were not removed. The people continued sacrificing and making offerings on the high places.

⁵ The Lord afflicted the king, and he was leprous until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house. Jotham the king’s son was in charge of the house, judging the people of the land.

⁶ Now the rest of the deeds of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? ⁷ So Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Jotham his son reigned in his place.