2 Kings 18:5 asv — He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among t…

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.