Azariah. In the year of his death (649) Isaiah had his vision (Isa_6:1-9. Joh_12:4)), when the "voice" from the Temple prophesied the Dispersion (see the Structure of Isaiah). Uzziah had been driven from the Temple to a lazar house, when Isaiah saw the vision of the Temple in heaven.
slept with his fathers. See note on Deu_31:16.
Jotham. The first-named of the four kings in whose reigns Isaiah prophesied (Isa_1:1). Micah also began to prophesy and mourn over the coming dispersion of Israel.
in his stead. There had been an interregnum of eleven or twelve years.