1. Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.
2. And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.
3. In the first year of his kingship, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and strengthened them.
4. And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and he gathered them into the eastern square.
5. And he said to them, “Hear me, O Levites! Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, and bring out the defilement from the sanctuary.
6. For our ancestors acted unfaithfully and did evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the dwelling place of Yahweh. They have turned their backs on it.