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2 Kings 18:1-8

Hezekiah's Righteous Reign and Reforms

2 Kings 18:1-8
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Now in the third yeere of Hoshea, sonne of Elah King of Israel, Hezekiah the sonne of Ahaz king of Iudah began to reigne.
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He was fiue and twentie yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned nine and twenty yeere in Ierusalem. His mothers name also was Abi the daughter of Zachariah,
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And he did vprightly in the sight of the Lord, according to all that Dauid his father had done.
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He tooke away the hie places, and brake the images, and cut downe the groues, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for vnto those dayes the children of Israel did burne incense to it, and hee called it Nehushtan.
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He trusted in the Lord God of Israel: so that after him was none like him among all the Kings of Iudah, neither were there any such before him.
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For he claue to the Lord, and departed not from him, but kept his commandements, which the Lord had commanded Moses.
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So the Lord was with him, and he prospered in all thinges, which he tooke in hande: also he rebelled against the King of Asshur, and serued him not.
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He smote the Philistims vnto Azzah, and the coastes thereof, from the watch towre vnto the defensed citie.
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