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In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king.
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He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
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And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done,
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except that the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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Then the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper until the day of his death; so he dwelt in an isolated house. And Jotham the king's son was over the royal house, judging the people of the land.
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Now 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 rested with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the City of David. Then Jotham his son reigned in his place.
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In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria six months.