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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2 Kings 15:5 in context
2 Kings 15:2–8
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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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Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in David’s city; and 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.
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