2 Tawarikh 26:1

Uzziah’s Reign

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

2 Tawarikh 26:3-4

26:3 Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. ²  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. ³ 

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

² map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

³ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Amaziah his father had done.”