¹In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned hath Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah, ²a son of sixteen years was he in his reigning, and fifty and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother is Jecholiah of Jerusalem, ³and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that Amaziah his father did, ⁴only, the high places have not turned aside—yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places. ⁵And Jehovah smiteth the king, and he is a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelleth in a separate house, and Jotham son of the king is over the house, judging the people of the land. ⁶And the rest of the matters of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah? ⁷And Azariah lieth with his fathers, and they bury him with his fathers, in the city of David, and reign doth Jotham his son in his stead.

⁸In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah reigned hath Zechariah son of Jeroboam over Israel, in Samaria, six months,

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