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Contemporary English Version

2 Kings 15:1

Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah in Jeroboam's twenty-seventh year as king of Israel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Influence;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Uzziah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Isaiah;   Rezin;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hosea;   Uzziah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Miracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jeroboam;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Kings, 1 and 2;   Uzzia(h);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Uzziah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jeroboam (2) ;   Uzziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jotham;   Uzziah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Azari'ah;   Jo'tham;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Israel;   Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Uzza;   Uzziah (Azariah);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amaziah, King of Judah;   Uzziah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the twenty-seventh year of Israel’s King Jeroboam, Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah.
Hebrew Names Version
In the twenty-seventh year of Yarov`am king of Yisra'el began `Azaryah son of Amatzyah king of Yehudah to reign.
King James Version
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
English Standard Version
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
New Century Version
Uzziah son of Amaziah became king of Judah during Jeroboam's twenty-seventh year as king of Israel.
New English Translation
In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam's reign over Israel, Amaziah's son Azariah became king over Judah.
Amplified Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam [II] king of Israel, Azariah (Uzziah) the son of Amaziah king of Judah became king.
New American Standard Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah became king.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the seuen and twentieth yeere of Ieroboam King of Israel, began Azariah, sonne of Amaziah King of Iudah to reigne.
Legacy Standard Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah became king.
Complete Jewish Bible
It was in the twenty-seventh year of Yarov‘am king of Isra'el that ‘Azaryah the son of Amatzyah, king of Y'hudah, began his reign.
Darby Translation
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.
Easy-to-Read Version
King Azariah son of Amaziah of Judah became king in the 27th year that Jeroboam was king of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
IN the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Uzziah the son of Amaziah king of Judah, began to reign.
Good News Translation
In the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Jeroboam II of Israel, Uzziah son of Amaziah became king of Judah
Lexham English Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
Literal Translation
In the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam the king of Israel Azariah the son of Amaziah the king of Judah began to reign.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
In the seuen & twentieth yeare of Ieroboam kynge of Israel, reigned Asarias the sonne of Amasias kynge of Iuda:
American Standard Version
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
Bible in Basic English
In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
In the twentie and seuenth yere of Ieroboam king of Israel, began Azaria sonne of Amazia king of Iuda to raigne.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
King James Version (1611)
In the twenty and seuenth yeere of Ieroboam king of Israel, began Azariah sonne of Amaziah king of Iudah to reigne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel Azarias the son of Amessias king of Juda began to reign.
English Revised Version
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
Berean Standard Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's reign over Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In the seuenthe and twentithe yeer of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azarie, sone of Amasie, kyng of Juda, regnede;
Young's Literal Translation
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned hath Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah,
Update Bible Version
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
World English Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
New King James Version
2 Chronicles 26:3-23">[xr] In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, became king.
New Living Translation
Uzziah son of Amaziah began to rule over Judah in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of King Jeroboam II of Israel.
New Life Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to rule.
New Revised Standard
In the twenty-seventh year of King Jeroboam of Israel King Azariah son of Amaziah of Judah began to reign.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the seven and twentieth year of Jeroboam, king of Israel, reigned Azarias, son of Amasias, king of Juda.
Revised Standard Version
In the twenty-seventh year of Jerobo'am king of Israel Azari'ah the son of Amazi'ah, king of Judah, began to reign.
THE MESSAGE
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah became king in Judah. He was sixteen years old when he began his rule and he was king for fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Jecoliah. She was from Jerusalem. He did well in the eyes of God , following in the footsteps of his father Amaziah. But he also failed to get rid of the local sex-and-religion shrines; they continued to be popular with the people. God afflicted the king with a bad skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in the palace but no longer acted as king; his son Jotham ran the government and ruled the country.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah became king.

Contextual Overview

1 Azariah son of Amaziah became king of Judah in Jeroboam's twenty-seventh year as king of Israel. 2 He was only sixteen years old when he became king, and he ruled fifty-two years from Jerusalem, which was also the hometown of his mother Jecoliah. 3 Azariah obeyed the Lord by doing right, as his father Amaziah had done. 4 But Azariah did not destroy the local shrines, and they were still used as places for offering sacrifices. 5 The Lord punished Azariah with leprosy for the rest of his life. He wasn't allowed to live in the royal palace, so his son Jotham lived there and ruled in his place. 6 Everything else Azariah did while he was king is written in The History of the Kings of Judah. 7 Azariah died and was buried beside his ancestors in Jerusalem. His son Jotham then became king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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In the: 2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 14:16, 2 Kings 14:17

twenty and seventh: "This is the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's partnership in the kingdom with his father, who made him consort at his going to the Syrian wars. It is the sixteenth year of Jeroboam's monarchy."

Azariah: 2 Kings 15:13, 2 Kings 15:30-38, 2 Kings 14:21, 2 Chronicles 26:1, 2 Chronicles 26:3, 2 Chronicles 26:4, Uzziah

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 15:6 - Azariah 2 Kings 15:32 - Jotham Hosea 1:1 - Uzziah Amos 1:1 - in the Matthew 1:8 - Ozias

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
Later the Lord spoke to Abram in a vision, "Abram, don't be afraid! I will protect you and reward you greatly."
Genesis 15:2
But Abram answered, " Lord All-Powerful, you have given me everything I could ask for, except children. And when I die, Eliezer of Damascus will get all I own.
Genesis 15:3
You have not given me any children, and this servant of mine will inherit everything."
Genesis 15:4
The Lord replied, "No, he won't! You will have a son of your own, and everything you have will be his."
Genesis 15:5
Then the Lord took Abram outside and said, "Look at the sky and see if you can count the stars. That's how many descendants you will have."
Genesis 15:6
Abram believed the Lord , and the Lord was pleased with him.
Genesis 15:10
Abram obeyed the Lord . Then he cut the animals in half and laid the two halves of each animal opposite each other on the ground. But he did not cut the doves and pigeons in half.
Genesis 15:16
Four generations later, your descendants will return here and take this land, because only then will the people who live here be so sinful that they deserve to be punished.
Genesis 15:17
Sometime after sunset, when it was very dark, a smoking cooking pot and a flaming fire went between the two halves of each animal.
Genesis 21:17
When God heard the boy crying, the angel of God called out to Hagar from heaven and said, "Hagar, why are you worried? Don't be afraid. I have heard your son crying.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the twenty amd seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah the son on Amaziah king of Judah to reign. Now Amaziah lived only to the fifteenth year of Jeroboam, 2 Kings 14:2 in which year, and not in his twenty seventh, it might be thought Azariah his son began to reign. There are various ways taken to remove this difficulty, not to take notice of a corruption of numbers, "twenty seven for seventeen", which some insist on. Ben Gersom and Abarbinel are of opinion, that those twenty seven years of Jeroboam's reign are not to be understood of what were past, but of what were to come before the family of Jehu was extinct; and that he reigned twenty six years, and his son six months, which made twenty seven imperfect years. Others suppose that Jeroboam reigned with his father eleven or twelve years before his death; and, reckoning from the different periods of his reign, this was either the twenty seventh year, or the fifteenth or sixteenth: and others, that the reign of Azariah may be differently reckoned, either from the time his father fled to Lachish, where he might remain eleven or twelve years, or from his death, and so may be said to begin to reign either in the fifteenth or twenty seventh of Jeroboam; or there was an interregnum of eleven or twelve years after the death of his father, he being a minor of about four years of age, which was the fifteenth of Jeroboam, during which time the government was in the hands of the princes and great men of the nation; and it was not till Azariah was sixteen years of age, and when it was the twenty seventh of Jeroboam's reign, that the people agreed to make him king, see 2 Kings 14:21 and which seems to be the best way of accounting for it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XV

Azariah begins to reign over Judah, and acts well, but does not

remove the high places, 1-4.

He becomes leprous, and dies, after having reigned fifty-two

years; and Jotham, his son, reigns in his stead, 5-7.

Zachariah reigns over Israel, and acts wickedly; and Shallum

conspires against him and slays him, after he had reigned six

months, 8-12.

Shallum reigns one month, and is slain by Menahem, 13-15.

Menahem's wicked and oppressive reign; he subsidizes the king

of Assyria, and dies, after having reigned ten years, 16-22.

Pekahiah, his son, reigns in his stead; does wickedly; Pekah,

one of his captains, conspires against and kills him, after he

had reigned two years, 23-26.

Pekah reigns in his stead, and acts wickedly, 27-28.

Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, carries into captivity the

inhabitants of many cities, 29.

Hoshea conspires against and slays Pekah, after he had reigned

twenty years; and reigns in his stead, 30, 31.

Jotham beans to reign over Judah; he reigns well; dies after a

reign of sixteen years, and is succeeded by his son Ahaz,

32-38.

NOTES ON CHAP. XV

Verse 2 Kings 15:1. In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam — Dr. Kennicott complains loudly here, because of "the corruption in the name of this king of Judah, who is expressed by four different names in this chapter: Ozriah, Oziah, Ozrihu, and Ozihu. Our oldest Hebrew MS. relieves us here by reading truly, in 2 Kings 15:1; 2 Kings 15:6-7, עזיהו Uzziah, where the printed text is differently corrupted. This reading is called true,

1. Because it is supported by the Syriac and Arabic versions in these three verses.

2. Because the printed text itself has it so in 2 Kings 15:32; 2 Kings 15:34 of this very chapter.

3. Because it is so expressed in the parallel place in Chronicles; and,

4. Because it is not αζαριας, Azariah, but οζιας, Oziah, (Uzziah,) in St. Matthew's genealogy."

There are insuperable difficulties in the chronology of this place. The marginal note says, "This is the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's partnership in the kingdom with his father, who made him consort at his going to the Syrian wars. It is the sixteenth year of Jeroboam's monarchy." Dr. Lightfoot endeavours to reconcile this place with 2 Kings 14:16-17, thus: "At the death of Amaziah, his son and heir Uzziah was but four years old, for he was about sixteen in Jeroboam's twenty-seventh year; therefore, the throne must have been empty eleven years, and the government administered by protectors while Uzziah was in his minority." Learned men are not agreed concerning the mode of reconciling these differences; there is probably some mistake in the numbers. I must say to all the contending chronologers: -

Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites.

When such men disagree, I can't decide.


 
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