2. He was sixteen years old, when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Jechelia of Jerusalem.
3. And he did that which was pleasing before the Lord, according to all that his father Amasias had done.
4. But the high places he did not destroy: for the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
5. And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart: but Joatham the king's soil governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.
6. And the rest of the acts of Azarias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?