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In the year twenty-seven of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name
was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
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And he did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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But with all this, the high places were not removed; the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
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And the LORD smote the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham, the king’s son,
was over the house, judging the people of the land.
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And the rest of the acts of Azariah and all that he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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So Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David; and Jotham, his son, reigned in his stead.