1
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.
2
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.
3
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David did.
4
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.
5
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.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.