Azariah] 2 Chron. 26. 1. he is called, Ʋzziah.
instead of his father] While his father lived; for he reigned twelve yeers in his fathers time, even after the time that they conspired against his father; which thus appears: Jeroboam the son of Joash began his reign in the fifteenth yeer of Amaziah, and reigned one and fourty yeers, v. 23. Jeroboams son began his reign in the eight and thirtieth of Uzziah, chap. 15. 8. Amaziah reigned twenty nine yeers: take away fifteen from twenty nine, and there remains fourteen: adde to these thirty eight of Uzziah’s, there will arise the summe of fifty two. Out of these must be taken at least eleven, to make the just account of Jeroboam’s one and fourty yeers: these eleven (or twelve, because yeers of kings are reckoned currant) must needs be swallowed up in the joynt reign of Amaziah and Uzziah his son. See the like, 2 Kings 1:17.