All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 21. Azarias. Hebrew Hazarya. Sometimes printed more correctly Azieu, at others Azrien, ( Bible.) by the blundering of transcribers, who have confounded the name of the king Ozihu (Azieu or Ozias) with that of the priest Ozrichu. (Azrien.) Carpzovius maintains that Azarias and Usias are two names of the same person. Crit. p. 789. But if he should find Carpzovius, Carpzorvius, and Carpzoviu, in the same book, would he not think them the same name erroneously printed? Kennicott, (Dis. i. p. 478.) who observes that the Syr. and Arab. versions have here, as in the sequel, Uzia, and S. Mat. (1:8) calls the king Ozias, conformably to 2 Chronicles 26:1. and so forth The MSS. also vary. Kennicott.