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2 Kings 14:22

He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Uzziah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Elath;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Elath;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Elath;   Israel;   Jehoahaz;   Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Elath;   Ezion-Geber;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Elath;   Uzziah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Amaziah ;   Elath, Eloth ;   Jeroboam (2) ;   Joash ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elath;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Edom;   Elath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Amaziah;   Chronology of the Old Testament;   Edom;   Elath;   Red Sea;   Uzziah (Azariah);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After Amaziah the king rested with his fathers, Azariah rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah.
Hebrew Names Version
He built Elat, and restored it to Yehudah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
King James Version
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
English Standard Version
He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
New Century Version
He rebuilt the town of Elath and made it part of Judah again after Amaziah died.
New English Translation
Azariah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king had passed away.
Amplified Bible
He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king [his father Amaziah] slept with his fathers [in death].
New American Standard Bible
He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king lay down with his fathers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
He built Elath, and restored it to Iudah, after that the King slept with his fathers.
Contemporary English Version
Azariah was the one who later recaptured and rebuilt the town of Elath.
Complete Jewish Bible
‘Azaryah recovered Eilat for Y'hudah and rebuilt it; after that the king [Amatzyahu] slept with his ancestors.
Darby Translation
It was he that built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
Easy-to-Read Version
So King Amaziah died and was buried with his ancestors. Then Azariah rebuilt Elath and got it back for Judah.
George Lamsa Translation
He built Elath and restored it to Judah, and after that the king slept with his fathers.
Good News Translation
Uzziah reconquered and rebuilt Elath after his father's death.
Lexham English Bible
He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.
Literal Translation
He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He buylded Eloth, and broughte it agayne vnto Iuda, after that the kynge was fallen on slepe with his fathers.
American Standard Version
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Bible in Basic English
He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He built Elath, and brought it againe to Iuda after that the king was layde to rest with his fathers.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
King James Version (1611)
He built Elath, and restored it to Iudah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He built Æloth, and restored it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.
English Revised Version
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Berean Standard Bible
Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he bildide Ahila, and restoride it to Juda, after that `the kyng slepte with hise fadris.
Young's Literal Translation
he hath built Elath, and bringeth it back to Judah, after the lying of the king with his fathers.
Update Bible Version
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Webster's Bible Translation
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
World English Bible
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
New King James Version
He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his fathers.
New Living Translation
After his father's death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.
New Life Bible
Azariah built Elath and returned it to Judah, after the king died.
New Revised Standard
He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah slept with his ancestors.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He, built Elath, and restored it to Judah, - after the king slept with his fathers.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Revised Standard Version
He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

Contextual Overview

15Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel? 16So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place. 17And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. 18Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 19And they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there. 20Then they carried him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David. 21And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. 22He built Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his fathers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Elath: Elath, the Ala or Elana of the Greek and Roman writers, was a celebrated port situated at the extremity of the eastern branch of the Red Sea, hence called the Elanitic Gulf, ten miles east from Petra, according to Eusebius, and 150; Roman miles from Gaza, according to Pliny, but 1,260 stadia, or 157 miles, according to Strabo and Marcianus Herecleota. It is now called Akaba, and is nothing but a tower or castle, surrounded by a large grove of date trees, the residence of a governor, dependent on him of Grand Cairo. 2 Kings 16:6, Deuteronomy 2:8, 1 Kings 9:26, 2 Chronicles 26:2, Eloth

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 8:17 - Eloth

Cross-References

Genesis 14:5
So in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and struck the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
Genesis 14:6
and the Horites in their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
Genesis 14:19
Then he blessed him and said,"Blessed be Abram of God Most High,Possessor of heaven and earth;
Genesis 14:20
And blessed be God Most High,Who has delivered your enemies into your hand."Then he gave him a tenth of all.
Genesis 14:23
that I will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you would not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.'
Genesis 17:1
Now it happened that when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him,"I am God Almighty;Walk before Me and be blameless,
Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Exodus 6:8
And I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am Yahweh.'"
Deuteronomy 32:40
Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,And say, as I live forever,
Judges 11:35
En net toe hy haar sien, skeur hy sy klere en sê: Ag, my dogter, jy druk my heeltemal neer, en jy stort my in die ongeluk! Want ek het my mond geopen teenoor die HERE, en ek kan nie terugtrek nie.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He built Elath,.... A port which belonged to Edom, Deuteronomy 2:8 which very probably David took from them when he made them tributary, and which they retook when they revolted, and Amaziah got again when he defeated them; and this his son rebuilt and fortified:

and restored it to Judah; annexed it to the kingdom of Judah, as in the days of David and Solomon:

after that the king slept with his fathers; after the death of his father Amaziah.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Elath, or Eloth (marginal reference 1 Kings 9:26), was near Ezion-Geber, in the Gulf of Akabah. It had been lost to the Jews on the revolt of Edom from Joram 2 Kings 8:22. Uzziah’s re-establishment of the place, rendered possible by his father’s successes 2 Kings 14:7, was one of his first acts, and seems to imply a desire to renew the commercial projects which Solomon had successfully carried out, and which Jehoshaphat had vainly attempted 1 Kings 22:48.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 14:22. He built Elath — This city belonged to the Edomites; and was situated on the eastern branch of the Red Sea, thence called the Elanitic Gulf. It had probably suffered much in the late war; and was now rebuilt by Uzziah, and brought entirely under the dominion of Judah.


 
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