1. IN THE twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam [II] king of Israel, Azariah (Uzziah) son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
2. He was sixteen years old when he began his fifty-two-year reign in Jerusalem. His mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3. He did right in the Lord's sight, in keeping with all his father Amaziah had done–
4. Except the high places were not removed; the people sacrificed and burned incense still on the high places.
5. And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper to his dying day, and dwelt in a separate house. Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land. [II Chron. 26:16-21.]
6. The rest of Azariah's acts, all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?