2 Chronicles 28:27-29:5
English Standard Version
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for (A)they did not bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
Hezekiah Reigns in Judah
29 (B)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[a] the daughter of (C)Zechariah. 2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple
3 In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he (D)opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them. 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east 5 and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now (E)consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth[b] from the Holy Place.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 Spelled Abi in 2 Kings 18:2
- 2 Chronicles 29:5 Hebrew impurity
Isaiah 57:15
English Standard Version
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