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And it came to pass in the third year of Osee son of Ela king of Israel Ezekias son of Achaz king of Juda began to reign.
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Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name Abu, daughter of Zacharias.
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And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David did.
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He removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Neesthan.
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He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; and after him there was not any like him among the kings of Juda, nor among those that were before him.