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; and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3. He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
4. Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
5. The Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he lived in a separate house, while Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
6. Now the rest of the acts of Azariah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
7. And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place.
8. In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months.
9. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.
10. Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him before the people and killed him, and reigned in his place.
11. Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
12. This is the word of the Lord which He spoke to Jehu, saying, "Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." And so it was.