1. Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2. He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.
3. In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.
4. He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side.
5. He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors! Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!
6. For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him.