1. In the year twenty-seven of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
2. He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
3. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
4. But with all this, the high places were not removed; the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
5. And the Lord smote the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham, the king’s son, was over the house, judging the people of the land.