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Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.
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Now Ezechias began to reign, when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abia, the daughter of Zacharias.
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And he did that which was pleasing in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
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In the first year and month of his reign he opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
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And he brought the priests and the Levites, and assembled them in the east street.
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And he said to them: Hear me, ye Levites, and be sanctified, purify the house of the Lord the God of your fathers, and take away all filth out of the sanctuary.