1. HEZEKIAH BEGAN to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
2. And he did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father [forefather] had done.
3. In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord [which his father had closed] and repaired them.
4. He brought together the priests and Levites in the square on the east