^{1 Ref} Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

^{2 Ref} Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

^{3 Ref} And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.

^{4 Ref} He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

^{5 Ref} He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor `among them' that were before him.

^{6 Ref} For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

^{7 Ref} And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

^{8 Ref} He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.