1. In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, 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 Jekoliah from Jerusalem.
3. He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
4. But the high places were not removed. The people continued sacrificing and making offerings on the high places.
5. The Lord afflicted the king, and he was leprous until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house. Jotham the king’s son was in charge of the house, judging the people of the land.
6. Now the rest of the deeds of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?
7. So Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Jotham his son reigned in his place.
8. In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam became king of Israel in Samaria for six months.
9. He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done. He did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
10. Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, struck him at Ibleam, and killed him. Then Shallum reigned in his place.
11. Now the rest of the deeds of Zechariah are written in the book of the annals of the kings of Israel.
12. This was the word of the Lord which He spoke to Jehu, “Your sons will sit on the throne of Israel to the fourth generation.” And it was so.
13. Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah. He reigned for a month in Samaria.