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Hezekiah obeyed the Lord by doing right, just as his ancestor David had done.

The Temple Is Purified

In the first month[a] of the first year of Hezekiah's rule, he unlocked the doors to the Lord's temple and had them repaired.[b] Then he called the priests and Levites to the east courtyard of the temple

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Footnotes

  1. 29.3 first month: Abib (also called Nisan), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.
  2. 29.3 he unlocked the doors … repaired: King Ahaz had locked the doors and stopped everyone from worshiping the Lord (see 28.24,25).

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight(A) just as his ancestor David had done.

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.(B) Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the eastern public square.(C)

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He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David(A) had done.

In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the Lord and repaired(B) them. He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side

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