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English Standard Version

2 Kings 14:21

And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Uzziah;   Thompson Chain Reference - Azariah;   Israel;   Israel-The Jews;   Kings of Israel;   Uzziah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Uzziah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Azariah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Uzzia(h);   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Government;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amaziah ;   Genealogy of the Lord Jesus;   Jeroboam (2) ;   Joash ;   Uzziah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Amaziah;   Azariah;   Uzziah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Azari'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Chronology of the Old Testament;   Uzziah (Azariah);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Hebrew Names Version
All the people of Yehudah took `Azaryah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amatzyah.
King James Version
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
New Century Version
Then all the people of Judah made Uzziah king in place of his father Amaziah. Uzziah was sixteen years old.
New English Translation
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah's place.
Amplified Bible
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was [only] sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
New American Standard Bible
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then all the people of Iudah tooke Azariah which was sixteene yeere olde, and made him King for his father Amaziah.
Legacy Standard Bible
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
Contemporary English Version
After his death the people of Judah made his son Azariah king, even though he was only sixteen at the time.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then all the people of Y'hudah took ‘Azaryah at the age of sixteen and made him king in place of his father Amatzyah.
Darby Translation
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then all the people of Judah made Azariah the new king. Azariah was 16 years old.
George Lamsa Translation
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Good News Translation
The people of Judah then crowned his sixteen-year-old son Uzziah as king.
Lexham English Bible
All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah.
Literal Translation
And all the people of Judah took Azariah (and he was a son of sixteen years), and they made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all the people of Iuda toke Asarias in his sixtenth yeare, and made him kynge in steade of Amasias his father.
American Standard Version
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Bible in Basic English
Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the people of Iuda toke Azaria (which was sixteene yeres olde) and made him king for his father Amaziahu.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
King James Version (1611)
And all the people of Iudah tooke Azariah (which was sixteene yeeres old) and made him king in stead of his father Amaziah.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the people of Juda took Azarias, and he was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amessias.
English Revised Version
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
Berean Standard Bible
Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe al the puple of Juda took Azarie, hauynge sixtene yeer; and maden hym king for his fadir Amasie.
Young's Literal Translation
And all the people of Judah take Azariah, and he [is] a son of sixteen years, and cause him to reign instead of his father Amaziah;
Update Bible Version
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who [was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
World English Bible
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
New King James Version
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, 2 Chronicles 26:1ff, Isaiah 6:1, and elsewhere">[fn] who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
New Living Translation
All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah.
New Life Bible
The people of Judah took Azariah and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. He was sixteen years old.
New Revised Standard
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king to succeed his father Amaziah.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, he, being sixteen yearn old, - and made, him, king instead of his father Amaziah.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.
Revised Standard Version
And all the people of Judah took Azari'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.
THE MESSAGE
Azariah—he was only sixteen years old at the time—was the unanimous choice of the people of Judah to succeed his father Amaziah as king. Following his father's death, he rebuilt and restored Elath to Judah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

Contextual Overview

15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash that he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. 17 Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel. 18 Now the rest of the deeds of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 19 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. 20 And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah. 22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Azariah: 2 Kings 15:13, 2 Chronicles 26:1, Uzziah, Matthew 1:8, Matthew 1:9, Ozias

made him king: 2 Kings 21:24, 1 Chronicles 3:12

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 15:8 - the thirty 2 Kings 15:32 - Jotham 2 Kings 23:30 - the people Amos 1:1 - in the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the people of Judah took Azariah,.... Called Uzziah in the next chapter, and so in the book of Chronicles; both names signifying much the same, the one "the help of the Lord", the other "the strength of the Lord":

(which was sixteen years old;) yet as he began to reign in the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam, 2 Kings 15:1 and Jeroboam began to reign in the fifteenth yaer of Amaziah, 2 Kings 14:23, he could be but four years of age, for the solution of which, 2 Kings 14:23- ::

and made him king instead of his father Amaziah; which was after his death, and not when he fled to Lachish, as Kimchi thinks.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All the people of Judah - The words imply that the conspiracy was one in which the general mass of the people did not participate. There was no confusion and trouble as on the occasion of the murder of Joash. Azariah (“the strength of Yahweh”), and Uzziah (“whom Yahweh assists”), were mere variants of one name.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 14:21. Took Azariah — He is also called Uzziah, 2 Chronicles 26:1. The former signifies, The help of the Lord; the latter, The strength of the Lord.


 
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