1. 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 Jecholiah, from Jerusalem.
3. He did what was right in the Lord’s sight, just as his father Amaziah had done,
4. though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.
5. The Lord afflicted the king, and he was a leper until the day he died. He lived in a house apart, while Jotham, the king’s son, was master of the palace and ruled the people of the land.
6. The rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
7. Azariah rested with his ancestors, and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Jotham succeeded him as king.