2 He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecholiah, from Jerusalem.
3 He did what was right in the Lord’s sight, just as his father Amaziah had done,
4 though the high places did not disappear, and the people continued to sacrifice and to burn incense on the high places.
5 The Lord afflicted the king, and he was a leper until the day he died. He lived in a house apart, while Jotham, the king’s son, was master of the palace and ruled the people of the land.
6 The rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
7 Azariah rested with his ancestors, and was buried with them in the City of David, and his son Jotham succeeded him as king.
8 In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, became king over Israel in Samaria for six months.