“Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.”
2 Chronicles 26:1 (KJV)
Context Reading
1Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah. 2He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers. 3Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.