2 Kings 14:21

And all the people of Judah took Azariah ,.... Called Uzziah in the next chapter, and so in the book of Chronicles; both names signifying much the same, the one "the help of the Lord", the other "the strength of the Lord":

(which was sixteen years old;) yet as he began to reign in the twenty seventh year of Jeroboam, 2 Kings 15:1 and Jeroboam began to reign in the fifteenth yaer of Amaziah, 2 Kings 14:23 , he could be but four years of age, for the solution of which; see Gill on 2 Kings 15:1 ,

and made him king instead of his father Amaziah ; which was after his death, and not when he fled to Lachish, as Kimchi thinks.