Azariah Reigns in Judah^(A)

15 In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, ^(B)Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, ^(C)became king. ² He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem. ³ And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done, ^4 (D)except that the ^[a]high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. ⁵ Then the Lord ^(E)struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his ^(F)death; so he ^(G)dwelt in an isolated house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the royal 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 So Azariah ^[b]rested with his fathers, and ^(H)they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Jotham his son reigned in his place.