21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah,
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
21 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.
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
21 All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah.
22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
22 He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.
22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
22 Following his father's death, he rebuilt and restored Elath to Judah.
22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his fathers.
22 After his father's death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.
(Read 2 Kings 14:15-22)
Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects. Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was slain. Though the years of his reign are reckoned from that event, he was not fully made king till eleven years afterwards.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Kings 14:21
Commentary on 2 Kings 14:15-22
(Read 2 Kings 14:15-22)
Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects. Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was slain. Though the years of his reign are reckoned from that event, he was not fully made king till eleven years afterwards.