1. In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam, the king of Israel: Azariah, the son of Amaziah, reigned as king of Judah.
2. He was sixteen years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3. And he did what was pleasing before the Lord, in accord with all that his father, Amaziah, did.
4. Yet truly, he did not demolish the high places. And still the people were sacrificing, and burning incense, in the high places.