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He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.
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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.
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He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.
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He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.
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For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.
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And the Lord was with him; he did well in all his undertakings: and he took up arms against the king of Assyria and was his servant no longer.
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He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.
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Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.
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And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
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And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes;
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Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.