1. Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.
2. And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
3. In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
4. And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.
5. And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary.