1. In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
2. He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
3. He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done.
4. Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
5. Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham the son of the king was over the house, governing the people of the land.
6. The remainder of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?