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

Azariah Reigns in Judah

1 ⁿIn the twenty-seventh year of ^oJeroboam king of Israel, ^pAzariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign. 2 He was sixteen 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 ^qdid what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. 4 Nevertheless, ^rthe high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. 5 ^sAnd the Lord touched the king, so that he was a leper¹ to the day of his death, and he lived ^tin a separate house.² And ^uJotham the king’s son was over the household, governing the people of the land.