He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the <sc>Lordsc> told him,<n id="1" />

By the ninth day of the fourth month<n id="1" /> the famine in the city was so severe the residents<n id="2" /> had no food.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Naaman, the commander of the king of Syria&#8217;s army, was esteemed and respected by his master,<n id="1" /> for through him the <sc>Lordsc> had given Syria military victories. But this great warrior had a skin disease.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Now King Mesha of Moab was a sheep breeder.<n id="1" /> He would send as tribute<n id="2" /> to the king of Israel 100,000 male lambs and the wool of 100,000 rams.

So the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom<n id="1" /> set out together. They wandered around on the road for seven days and finally ran out of water for the men and animals they had with them.

He said, &#8220;Get some flour.&#8221; Then he threw it into the pot and said, &#8220;Now pour some out for the men so they may eat.&#8221;<n id="1" /> There was no longer anything harmful in the pot.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the king of Syria was at war with Israel. He consulted his advisers, who said, &#8220;Invade<n id="1" /> at such and such<n id="2" /> a place.&#8221;

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Jehoaddan, who was from Jerusalem.

He was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty-two years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother&#8217;s name was Jecholiah, who was from Jerusalem.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother<n id="2" /> was Abi,<n id="3" /> the daughter of Zechariah.

He trusted in the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.<n id="1" />

Isaiah<n id="1" /> asked, &#8220;What have they seen in your palace?&#8221; Hezekiah replied, &#8220;They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything<n id="2" /> in my treasuries.&#8221;

The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple &#8211; including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called &#8220;The Sea,&#8221; the twelve bronze bulls under &#8220;The Sea,&#8221;<n id="1" /> and the movable stands &#8211; was too heavy to be weighed.

<p class="bodytext">He died just as the <sc>Lordsc> had prophesied through Elijah.<n id="1" /> In the second year of the reign of King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah, Ahaziah&#8217;s brother Jehoram replaced him as king of Israel, because he had no son.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a wife of one of the prophets<n id="1" /> appealed<n id="2" /> to Elisha for help, saying, &#8220;Your servant, my husband is dead. You know that your servant was a loyal follower of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" /> Now the creditor is coming to take away my two boys to be his servants.&#8221;

Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat son of Nimshi conspired against Joram.p><t /><p class="bodytext">Now Joram had been in Ramoth Gilead with the whole Israelite army,<n id="1" /> guarding against an invasion by King Hazael of Syria.

No king before or after repented before the <sc>Lordsc> as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses.<n id="1" />p>

Hezekiah welcomed<n id="1" /> them and showed them his whole storehouse, with its silver, gold, spices, and high quality olive oil, as well as his armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.<n id="2" />