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
5 and said:It's time to purify the temple of the Lord God of our ancestors. You Levites must first go through the ceremony to make yourselves clean, then go into the temple and bring out everything that is unclean and unacceptable to the Lord.