21 Then all the people of Judah took Azariah,[1] who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

Other Translations of 2 Kings 14:21

King James Version

21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, Azariah: also called, Uzziah which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

English Standard Version

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

The Message

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.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

21 All the people of Judah had crowned Amaziah's sixteen-year-old son, Uzziah, as king in place of his father, Amaziah.

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.