15 In the twenty-seventh year of King Yarave’am’s reign over Israel, Amatsyah’s son Azaryah[fn] became king of Yehudah. 2 He was sixteen when he became king, and he reigned from Yerushalem for fifty-two years. (His mother’s name was Jeholyah from Yerushalem.) 3 He did what Yahweh had said was correct behaviour like his father Amatsyah had done, 4 although the hilltop shrines weren’t removed—the people continued to sacrifice at them and burn incense. 5 Yahweh caused Azaryah to become a leper and he had to live separately from others for the rest of his life, so his son Yotam ran the palace and dealt with the people’s problems.

6 Everything else that Azaryah said and did is written in the book of the events of the kings of Yehudah. 7 Azaryah died and was buried in the ancestral tomb in the city of David, and his son Yotam replaced him as king.[ref]