He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done — Azariah follows the pattern of "doing what was right," connecting him to his father Amaziah's initial faithfulness. Yet the formula contains the same theological ambiguity as before: "right in the eyes of the LORD" (הַיָּשָׁר בְעֵינֵי יְהוָה, *ha-yashar be-eynei YHWH*) remains incomplete, a preliminary assessment that the following verses will complicate. The repetition of this formula across generations suggests institutional momentum toward faithfulness, yet also reveals the pattern's inadequacy to prevent ultimate decline.

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