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 repaired them; or strengthened them, the hinges, and other parts of them, being loosened and weakened; and ornamented them by overlaying them with gold, the plates of which very probably his father had taken off; for, certain it is, Hezekiah overlaid them, and very probably at this time, see Kg2 18:16.