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.