2 Kings 14:21

Azariah Succeeds Amaziah in Judah

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. ¹

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 And conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.

20 They carried him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his fathers 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 Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.

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

Cross References

• 1. (2 Chronicles 26:1–2)

Footnotes

• [a]. Azariah is also called Uzziah; see 2 Chronicles 26:1.