1. In the third year of Osee the son of Ela king of Israel, reigned m Ezechias the son of Achaz king of Juda.
2. He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi the daughter of Zacharias.
3. And he did that which was good before the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
4. He destroyed the n high places, and broke the statues in pieces, and cut down the groves, and broke the brazen serpent, which Moses had made: for till that time the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called its name Nohestan.