2 Kings 15:1–8

^*In the ^||twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel ^abegan ^||Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. ^2bSixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. ^3bAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; ^4cSave that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. ^5*And the Lord ^dsmote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and ^edwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land. ⁶And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? ^7*So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him ^fwith his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

^8*In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did ^||Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.