1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 He did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.
3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.
4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
5 and said to them, “Listen to me, you Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify Yahweh, the God of your fathers’ house, and carry the filthiness out of the holy place.