1 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the 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. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
4 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.