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.
Here is, I. Hezekiah's age when he came to the crown. He was twenty-five years old. Joash, who came to the crown after two bad reigns, was but seven years old; Josiah, who came after two bad reigns, was but eight, which occasioned the delay of the reformation; but Hezekiah had come to years, and so applied himself immediately to it.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
Hezekiah began to reign,.... Of these two verses; see Gill on Kg2 18:2; see Gill on Kg2 18:3. . 2 Chronicles 29:3 ch2 29:3 ch2 29:3 ch2 29:3He in the first year of his reign, in the first month,.... And, as appears from Ch2 29:17, on the first day of the month: opened the doors of the house of the Lord; which his father had shut, Ch2 28:24.
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, [even] in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead. (q) They did not bury him in the city of David, where the sepulchres of the kings were.
Commenting on 2 Chronicles 29:1-2