2 Chronicles 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

2 Chronicles 26:3-4

26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem. 26:4 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Amaziah had done.


tn The parallel account in 2 Kgs 15:1-8 has the variant spelling “Azariah.”

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tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Amaziah his father had done.”