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Now it came to pass in the third year of Hosea, son of Elah, king of Israel,
that Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to reign.
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He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also
was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
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And he did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David, his father, did.
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He removed the high places and broke the images and cut down the groves and broke in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days, the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan. {Heb. a thing of brass}
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He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that neither after him nor before was there any like him among all the kings of Judah.
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For he cleaved unto the LORD
and did not depart from following him, but kept his commandments which the LORD commanded Moses.
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And the LORD was with him,
and he prospered in all things in which he went forth; and he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.