2 Kings 15:1-7
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 15
Azariah of Judah.[a] 1 Azariah, the son of Amaziah, the king of Judah, began to reign during the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Jeroboam, the king of Israel. 2 He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecholiah who was from Jerusalem.
3 He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, doing everything as Amaziah, his father, had done. 4 However, he did not eliminate the high places, and the people still offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
5 The Lord struck down the king so that he was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house while Jotham, the king’s son, took charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
6 As for the other deeds of Azariah, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
7 Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Jotham, his son, then reigned in his stead.
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- 2 Kings 15:1 In the year in which King Amaziah died, Isaiah had the well-known vision in the temple that inaugurated his prophetic activity (Isa 6). In verses 13 and 30, Amaziah is called Uzziah; we do not know the reason for the double name.
