1 Ḥizqiyahu began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Aḇiyah the daughter of Zeḵaryahu.
2 And he did what was right in the eyes of יהוה, according to all that his father Dawiḏ did.
3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the House of יהוה and repaired them,
4 and brought in the priests and the Lĕwites, and gathered them in the open place to the east.
5 And he said to them, “Listen to me, O Lĕwites! Now set yourselves apart, set apart the House of יהוה Elohim of your fathers, and remove the uncleanness from the set-apart place.