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Hezeki'ah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi'jah the daughter of Zechari'ah.
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Hezeki'ah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Abi'jah the daughter of Zechari'ah.
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And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
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In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
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He brought in the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the square on the east,
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and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the holy place.
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