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

Azariah Reigns in Judah

1 ^vIn the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, ^wAzariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was ^xsixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. 3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 4 ^yNevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. 5 ^zAnd the Lord touched the king, so that he was a leper¹ to the day of his death, ^aand he lived in a separate house.² And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, governing the people of the land.