3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David, his father, did.
4 He removed the high places and broke the images and cut down the groves and broke in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days, the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. {Heb. a thing of brass}
5 He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that neither after him nor before was there any like him among all the kings of Judah.
6 For he cleaved unto the Lord and did not depart from following him, but kept his commandments which the Lord commanded Moses.
7 And the Lord was with him, and he prospered in all things in which he went forth; and he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
8 He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the towers of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 And in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hosea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it.