The total number of family leaders who led warriors was 2,600.

Uzziah supplied shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the entire army.

He offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

So the soldiers released the captives and the plunder before the officials and the entire assembly.

He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.

Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done for them, for it had been done quickly.

The king, his officials, and the entire assembly in Jerusalem decided to observe the Passover in the second month.

everyone who has determined to follow God, the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.”

The entire assembly then decided to celebrate for seven more days; so they joyfully celebrated for seven more days.

This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the Lord his God considered good and right and faithful.

He made storerooms for the harvest of grain, wine, and olive oil, and stalls for all his various kinds of livestock and his flocks.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

All the temple servants and the descendants of the servants of Solomon: 392.

The entire group numbered 42,360,

The priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their towns, and all the rest of Israel lived in their towns.

A proclamation was circulated throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles were to be assembled in Jerusalem.

All the assembly replied in a loud voice: “We will do just as you have said!

and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.