^{1 Ref} In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.

^{2 Ref} He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.

^{3 Ref} And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

^{4 Ref} But he did not take away the high places, and the people still went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

^{5 Ref} And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

^{6 Ref} Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?