“All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 2 Kings 14 contains 29 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.