2 Kings 14:21

21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah,^[a] who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

2 Kings 14:21 in Other Translations

21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

21 All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah’s sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah.

21 Azariah - he was only sixteen years old at the time - was the unanimous choice of the people of Judah to succeed his father Amaziah as king.

21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

21 All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was 16 years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

21 All of the people of Judah made Uzziah king. He was 16 years old. They made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

2 Kings 14:21 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 14:21

And all the people of Judah took Azariah
Called Uzziah in the next chapter, and so in the book of Chronicles; both names signifying much the same, the one "the help of the Lord", the other "the strength of the Lord":

(which was sixteen years old;)
yet as he began to reign in the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam, ( 2 Kings 15:1 ) and Jeroboam began to reign in the fifteenth yaer of Amaziah, ( 2 Kings 14:23 ) , he could be but four years of age, for the solution of which, (See Gill on 2 Kings 15:1):

and made him king instead of his father Amaziah;
which was after his death, and not when he fled to Lachish, as Kimchi thinks.

2 Kings 14:21 In-Context

19 They conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish, but they sent men after him to Lachish and killed him there.

20 He was brought back by horse and was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors, in the City of David.

21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

22 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.

23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years.

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 15:1; 2 Chronicles 26:23; Isaiah 1:1; Hosea 1:1; Amos 1:1

Footnotes

• [a]. Also called "Uzziah"