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In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
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Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty 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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save that the high places were not removed; the people sacrificed and burned 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.