Hezekiah Reigns in Judah
1 It happened in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.
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He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
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He did right in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that David his ancestor had done.
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He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites} were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.
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He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah.
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He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses.
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Yahweh was with him; everywhere he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.
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He attacked [the] Philistines up to Gaza and its territory from the watchtower up to the fortified city.