2 Kings 15:7

7 Azariah lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His son Jotham succeeded him as king.

2 Kings 15:7 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 15:7

So Azariah slept with his fathers
Or died, when he had reigned fifty two years:

and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David;
but not in the sepulchres of the kings, but in the field of the burial, or the burying ground which belonged to them, because he was a leper, ( 2 Chronicles 26:23 ) . Benjamin of Tudela ^F16 places his grave near the pillar of Absalom, and the fountain of Siloah, near the brook Kidron:

and Jotham his son reigned in his stead;
who reigned sixteen years; a further account of him, and his reign, we have in the latter part of this chapter, after the reigns of several of the kings of Israel.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Itinerar. p. 43.

2 Kings 15:7 In-Context

5 The LORD inflicted the king with a skin disease that lasted until the day the king died. So the king lived in a separate house. The king's son Jotham was in charge of the palace and governed the country.

6 Isn't everything else about Azariah--everything he did--written in the official records of the kings of Judah?

7 Azariah lay down in death with his ancestors and was buried with them in the City of David. His son Jotham succeeded him as king.

8 In Azariah's thirty-eighth year as king of Judah, Jeroboam's son Zechariah was king of Israel in Samaria for six months.

9 He did what the LORD considered evil, as his ancestors had done. He didn't turn away from the sins that Jeroboam (Nebat's son) led Israel to commit.