John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 29:3
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month ,.... And, as appears from 2 Chronicles 29:17 , on the first day of the month: opened the doors of the house of the Lord ; which his father had shut, 2 Chronicles 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... 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