(A)And the Lord touched the king, so that he was a leper[a] to the day of his death, (B)and he lived in a separate house.[b] And Jotham the king's son was over the household, governing the people of the land. Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers (C)in the city of David, and Jotham his son reigned in his place.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 15:5 Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
  2. 2 Kings 15:5 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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