All the people of Judah - The words imply that the conspiracy was one in which the general mass of the people did not participate. There was no confusion and trouble as on the occasion of the murder of Joash. Azariah ("the strength of Yahweh"), and Uzziah ("whom Yahweh assists"), were mere variants of one name.

Took Azariah - He is also called Uzziah, 2 Chronicles 26:1. The former signifies, The help of the Lord; the latter, The strength of the Lord.

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.

All the people of Judah, i.e., the whole nation, not the whole of the men of war (Thenius), thereupon made his son Azariah (Uzziah) king, who was only sixteen years old. עזריה or עזריהוּ is the name given to this king here and 2 Kings 15:1, 2 Kings 15:6,2 Kings 15:8, 2 Kings 15:17, 2 Kings 15:23, and 2 Kings 15:27, and 1 Chronicles 3:12; whereas in 2 Kings 15:13, 2 Kings 15:30, 2 Kings 15:32, 2 Kings 15:34; 2 Chronicles 26:1, 2 Chronicles 26:3,2 Chronicles 26:11, etc., and also Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 6:1; Hosea 1:1; Amos 1:1, and Zechariah 14:5, he is called עזּיה or עזּיּהוּ (Uzziah). This variation in the name is too constant to be attributable to a copyist's error. Even the conjecture that Azariah adopted the name Uzziah as king, or that it was given to him by the soldiers after a successful campaign (Thenius), does not explain the use of the two names in our historical books. We must rather assume that the two names, which are related in meaning, were used promiscuously. עזריה signifies "in Jehovah is help;" עזּיה, "whose strength is Jehovah." This is favoured by the circumstance adduced by Bertheau, that among the descendants of Kohath we also find an Uzziah who bears the name Azariah (1 Chronicles 6:9 and 1 Chronicles 6:21), and similarly among the descendants of Heman an Uzziel with the name Azarel (1 Chronicles 25:4 and 1 Chronicles 25:18).

And all the people of Judah took {i} Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.

(i) Who is also called Uzziah, 2Ch 26:1.

14:21 Azariah - This Azariah is called Uzziah, chap.15:30, both names signifying the same thing for substance; that, God's help; and this, God's strength. But this was not done till twelve years after his father's death: so long the government was in the hands of protectors.

Azariah: also called, Uzziah

Margin Azariah

Called Uzziah, 2Chr 26:1 Isa 1:1.

2Ki 14:21, 22. Azariah Succeeds Him.

21. all the people of Judah took Azariah-or Uzziah (2Ki 15:30; 2Ch 26:1). The popular opposition had been personally directed against Amaziah as the author of their calamities, but it was not extended to his family or heir.

14:15-22 Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects. Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was slain. Though the years of his reign are reckoned from that event, he was not fully made king till eleven years afterwards.