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2 Kings 15:2 Explained in Context
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Verse 2. 2Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Azariah reigns while isolated with skin disease.”
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- 2 Kings 15:1–7
Read 2 Kings 15:2 with 15:1–7. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Azariah does right with high places remaining, is afflicted with a skin disease, lives separately, and leaves governance to Jotham until death.
Why It Needs Context
2 Kings 15:2 depends on 15:1–7; isolating “Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Azariah reigns while isolated with skin disease.”
Read 2 Kings 15:1–7 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 15:1–7 forms one scene or regnal notice: Azariah does right with high places remaining, is afflicted with a skin disease, lives separately, and leaves governance to Jotham until death.
Verse 1. 1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
Verse 2. 2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.
Verse 3. 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;
Verse 4. 4 Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places.
Verse 5. 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.
Verse 6. 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?
Verse 7. 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.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Kings 15:1–7, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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