2 Kings 18:1–7

*Now it came to pass in athe third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that b||Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was ||Abi, the daughter of Zachariah. 3 cAnd he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did. 4 dHe removed the high places, and brake the †images, and cut down ethe groves, and brake in pieces the fbrasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it ||Nehushtan. 5 He gtrusted in the Lord God of Israel; hso that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. 6 For he iclave to the Lord, and departed not †from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. 7 *And kthe Lord was with him; and he lprospered whithersoever he went forth: and he mrebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.