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.