1. Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he was king in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. The name of his mother was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah.
2. And he did what was correct in the eyes of the Lord just as his father David had done.
3. And in the first year and first month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and restored them.