All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
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- KJV And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
- BSB Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
- NKJV And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
- NASB And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
- NLT All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah’s sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah.
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Cross-references · 5
- 2 Kgs 15:13Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned for a month in Samaria.
- Matt 1:8–9Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat. Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram. Joram became the father of Uzziah.
- 1 Chr 3:12Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
- 2 Kgs 21:24But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
- 2 Chr 26:1All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
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