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2 Chronicles 29:1-3
New Catholic Bible
2 Chronicles 29:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 29
Reforms of Hezekiah.[a] 1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his ancestor David had done.
3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the Lord and repaired them.
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- 2 Chronicles 29:1 Undermined in its foundations by paganism and threatened by the empires of the Assyrians and Chaldeans, the little kingdom of Judah is saved by its great prophets and good kings: Isaiah and Hezekiah in the eighth century, Jeremiah and Josiah in the seventh. The success was fairly temporary in both cases. Hezekiah was succeeded by Manasseh, who was the exact opposite of his father, and Josiah was succeeded by sons who brought on the final destruction.
