5. The Lord afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, and he lived in a separate house. Jotham the king’s son had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
6. As for the other events of Azariah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
7. Azariah rested with his ancestors and was buried near them in the City of David. And Jotham his son succeeded him as king.
8. In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in Samaria, and he reigned six months.
9. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his predecessors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.