He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jerusa, the daughter of Sadoc.
The word of the Lord that came to Micheas the Morasthite, in the days of Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda: which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
And the Lord struck the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelt in a free house apart. But Joatham the king's son governed the palace, and judged the people of the land.
Now Osee son of Ela conspired, and formed a plot against Phacee, the son of Romelia; and struck him; and slew him; and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Joatham the son of Ozias.