twenty and seventh year. So in 2 Chronicles 26:1-3. Azariah being then sixteen (2 Kings 15:2), and therefore only three on the death of his father Arnaziah. Hence, there were thirteen years interregnum (16. 3. 13). Arnaziah died in the fourteenth year of Jeroboam. Therefore Azariah began to reign in the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam (13. 14. 27). This is the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam's partnership with his father on his going to the Syrian wars. Azariah. Uzziah. See note on 2 Kings 14:21.
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2 Kings 15:1
1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariaha son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.