028:022 In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz. 028:023 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which struck him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, [therefore] will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. 028:024 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem. 028:025 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers. 028:026 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 028:027 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem; for they didn't bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. 029:001 Hezekiah began to reign when he was twenty-five years old; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah. 029:002 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. 029:003 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, and repaired them. 029:004 He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east, 029:005 and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place. 029:006 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs. 029:007 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. 029:008 Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes. 029:009 For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 029:010 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 029:011 My sons, don't be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.