John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:7
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch ,.... So that there was no entering into the temple, 2 Chronicles 28:24 . and put out the lamps ; for the priests not being able to go in morning and evening to light them, and dress them, they in course went out; the Jews say F14 Schulchan Aruch, par. 1. c. 580. sect. 2. , that on the eighteenth of Ab, which answers to part of July and August, the western lamp was extinct in the days of Ahaz, for which a fast was kept on that day: ... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:1-11
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. We may well think with what a sorrowful heart he beheld his father's idolatry and profaneness, how it troubled him to see the doors of the temple shut, though,... read more