He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Kings 15:2 in context
2 Kings 15:1–5
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In the twenty-seventh year 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. His mother’s name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
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He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
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However, the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.
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The LORD struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household, judging the people of the land.
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