1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled twenty-nine years from Jerusalem. His mother was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
2 Hezekiah obeyed the Lord by doing right, just as his ancestor David had done.
3 In the first month of the first year of Hezekiah's rule, he unlocked the doors to the Lord's temple and had them repaired.
4 Then he called the priests and Levites to the east courtyard of the temple