3 He did what the Lord considered right, as his father Amaziah had done.
4 But the illegal places of worship were still not torn down. The people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense at these worship sites.
5 The Lord inflicted the king with a skin disease that lasted until the day the king died. So the king lived in a separate house. The king’s son Jotham was in charge of the palace and governed the country.
6 Isn’t everything else about Azariah—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah?
7 Azariah lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His son Jotham succeeded him as king.
8 In Azariah’s thirty-eighth year as king of Judah, Jer o boam’s son Zechariah was king of Israel in Samaria for six months.
9 He did what the Lord considered evil, as his ancestors had done. He didn’t turn away from the sins that Jer o boam (Nebat’s son) led Israel to commit.