1. Hezekiah hath reigned--a son of twenty and five years, and twenty and nine years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Abijah daughter of Zechariah;
2. and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father did.
3. He, in the first year of his reign, in the first month, hath opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and strengtheneth them,
4. and bringeth in the priests and the Levites, and gathereth them to the broad place to the east.
5. And he saith to them, `Hear me, O Levites, now, sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, God of your fathers, and bring out the impurity from the sanctuary,
6. for our fathers have trespassed, and done that which is evil in the eyes of Jehovah our God, and forsake him, and turn round their faces from the tabernacle of Jehovah, and give the neck.
7. `Also--they have shut the doors of the porch, and quench the lamps, and perfume they have not made, and burnt-offering have not caused to ascend in the sanctuary to the God of Israel,