1. Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.
2. And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
3. He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the door of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
4. And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,
5. and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.