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.
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