Bible verse
Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
2 Kings 14:21 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Kings 14.
17 Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
18 As for the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
19 And conspirators plotted against Amaziah in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
20 They carried him back on horses and buried him in Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David.
21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
22 Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
23 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Amaziah son of Joash over Judah, Jeroboam son of Jehoash became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria forty-one years.
24 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
25 This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.
KJV
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
ASV
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
ERV
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
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