Bible verse
In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 29:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Chronicles 29.
1 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father David had done.
3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, Hezekiah opened and repaired the doors of the house of the LORD.
4 Then he brought in the priests and Levites and gathered them in the square on the east side.
5 “Listen to me, O Levites,” he said. “Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers. Remove from the Holy Place every impurity.
6 For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.
7 They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. They did not burn incense or present burnt offerings in the Holy Place of the God of Israel.
KJV
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
ASV
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.
ERV
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the door of the house of the LORD, and repaired them.
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