1. Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2. He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
3. In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.
4. He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
5. and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify Yahweh, the God of your fathers’ house, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.
6. For our fathers were unfaithful, and have done that which was evil in Yahweh our God’s sight, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.