He began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign.

And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month.

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the prosperity that the Lord had granted to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.

They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

Hezekiah Cleanses the Temple

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

They began to consecrate on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. Then for eight days they consecrated the house of the Lord, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to keep the Passover in the second month—

And many people came together in Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed, so that they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of the Lord.

In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.

Josiah Keeps the Passover

Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.