2 Kings 15:1–8

Azariah Reigns over Judah

^1aIn the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah became king.

²He was ^asixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ¹Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

³And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

⁴Only ^athe high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

^5aThen Yahweh smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he ^blived in a separate house, ¹while Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.

⁶Now 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?

⁷And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place.

Zechariah Reigns over Israel

^8aIn the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam became king over Israel in Samaria for six months.