Bible Strands
2 Kings 14:21
Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the immediate transition of power following King Amaziah’s death, noting that the populace of Judah actively selected his sixteen-year-old son Azariah to assume the throne.
The words — The verb וַיִּקְחוּ (va.yik.chu, "they took") paired with כָּל־עַם יְהוּדָה (kol-'am Yehudah, "all the people of Judah") highlights collective agency rather than formal court procedure.
The thread — This pattern of civic intervention in royal succession recurs in 2 Kings 21:24, where the people of the land eliminate regicides and install a king’s son.
Why it lands — The text establishes that Judahite royal transfers could be executed through mass popular action, requiring readers to track how civic authority intersects with dynastic claims.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 15:13 In the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah’s reign over Judah, Shallum son of Jabesh became king, and he reigned in Samaria one full month.
- 2 Kings 21:24 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 3:12 Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,
- Matthew 1:8 Asa was the father of Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat the father of Joram, and Joram the father of Uzziah.
- 2 Chronicles 26:1 All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.