Azariah Reigns over Judah

15 ^(A)In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah became king. ² He was ^(B)sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was ^[a]Jecoliah of Jerusalem. ³ And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done. ⁴ Only ^(C)the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ^5 (D)Then Yahweh smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death. And he ^(E)lived in a separate house, ^[b]while Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land. ⁶ Now 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 And 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.