It is in approach to God, in His presence enjoyed by faith, that the Christian learns His mind, and receives energy to act upon His Word.
We have observed that Hezekiah's first recorded act as king was toward God (Chapter 29:3, etc.); he owns that the evils that had come upon himself and his people were consequent upon their forgetfulness of Him. (Is this not evidently true of believers today?) Hezekiah then acted according to the intelligence given him of God: the divine center must first be cleansed of the defilement that men had brought in, and the cleansing made according to God's mind.
To the cleansed place, the king goes without delay ("early"), and with him a gathering, though the energy of the occasion was chiefly his own. Sin offering, acknowledgment and confession of that which had come in between themselves and God; and burnt offering; the acceptance of the believer with God in the sweet savor of a perfect victim (none other but Christ, typified) offered wholly to God, and heart-felt praise follow.
Desiring to have others share in the blessing, that there might be a true hearted and widespread return to God, Hezekiah and those with him next sent out an invitation to all their brethren to return to the God of their fathers, and His sanctuary.
Chapter 30:14 shows that with attended spiritual intelligence, there followed the putting away of that which was contrary to God close at home.
In our chapter today we see that this work of destruction was continued in a had tasted that the Lord is gracious. Learning His mind, they acted upon it, and put away from among themselves that which was dishonoring to Him. Should it not be so today?
God's order, His appointment for worship and service was restored as at the first (verse 2; and see 1 Chronicles 24-26); those who served God were provided for, and encouraged to go on according to his word (verses 4-10).
What an example for God's dear children of our own day is seen in all that we have been noticing, though we are, necessarily to carefully distinguish between what was suited for an earthly people (Israel), and a heavenly people (the Church of God, comprising all who are true believers in Christ).
Hezekiah would have missed the great spiritual blessings that he received, had he been content to go on with things as they were, but he acted for God in a day of wide spread departure from Him, acted at first alone, but was the means of leading many into blessing too. He did it with all his heart, and prospered (see 2 Kings 18:4-84He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and 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. 5He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him. 6For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses. 7And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not. 8He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city. (2 Kings 18:4‑8)).