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Hezekiah began to reign [when he was] five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

Hezekiah began to reign. — See 2 Kings 18:1-2 .

And his mother’s name was Abijah. — He was the better man for the good instructions of his mother, though she could do no good on her husband Ahaz; such was his pertinacy, not moved at all by her piety.

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And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

And he did that which was right. — 2 Kings 18:3 The more happy was his government, because he came after the stormy times of his father Ahaz. He came as a fresh spring after a sharp winter, and brought the ship of Judah from a troublous and tempestuous sea, to a safe and quiet harbour.

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He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.

He in the first year of his reign, in the first month. — Yea, and the first day of that month, 2 Chronicles 29:17 on his coronation day, began to reform.

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And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,

The east street. — Which was before the east gate of the temple.

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And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy [place].

And he said unto them, Hear me. — He makes a speech to them, full of faith and piety in every passage.

Ye Levites. — He beginneth his reformation at the ministry. Incipiendum a Minoritis, said one of the council of Basil; Imo vero a Maioritis, said another. The priests are here comprised under the name of Levites.

Sanctify now yourselves. — By legal rites, but especially by repentance, faith, and new obedience, fit yourselves for your respective employments.

And carry forth the filthiness. — The idols, and all their trinkets and trash. Nothing must be left behind that might make idolaters hope for a desired day.

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For our fathers have trespassed, and done [that which was] evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned [their] backs.

And have turned their backs. — With greatest scorn and disdain, openly, basely, and opprobriously.

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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] unto the God of Israel.

Unto the God of Israel. — Whom they have sacrilegiously robbed and wronged. We should be sensible of, and humbled for, the sins of our forefathers, else we are justly chargeable with them.

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Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

And he hath delivered them to trouble. — Heb., To commotion, so that they are scattered hither and thither, ut fit incursionibus Turcicis, as it falleth out wherever the great Turk setteth his foot.

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