A moment in scripture
2 Kings 15:5
And the Lord smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the house, judging the people of the land.
The surrounding passage
- 2 Kings 15:3
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
- 2 Kings 15:4
Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
- 2 Kings 15:6
And 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?
- 2 Kings 15:7
So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.