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Hezekiah Rules Judah

18 In the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Hezekiah the son of Ahaz, king of Judah, began to rule. He was twenty-five years old when he became king. And he ruled for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah. Hezekiah did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done. He took away the high places. He broke down the holy pillars used in worship and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the brass snake that Moses had made. For until those days the people of Israel burned special perfume to it. It was called Nehushtan. Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah before him or after him. For he held to the Lord and did not stop following Him. He kept His Laws which the Lord had given Moses. And the Lord was with him. Hezekiah did well in every place he went. He turned against the king of Assyria and did not work for him. He destroyed the Philistines as far as Gaza and its land, from the smallest town to the strongest city.

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