1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, daughter of Zechariah.
2 He did what was right in the Lord’s sight, just as David his father had done.
3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s house and repaired them.
4 He summoned the priests and Levites, gathering them in the open space to the east,
5 and said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Sanctify yourselves now and sanctify the house of the Lord, the God of your ancestors, and clean out the filth from the sanctuary.