Bible Strands
2 Kings 14:22
Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative author records the immediate aftermath of King Amaziah’s death, when the people of Judah install his sixteen-year-old son Azariah as king.
The words — בָּנָה (ba.Nah) translates as he built, and שְׁכַב (she.khav) translates as he lay down, denoting the physical reconstruction of the city and the royal burial of Amaziah.
The thread — Elath appears again when Rezin king of Aram recovers it for Aram and expels Judah’s garrison (2 Kings 16:6), and it is first identified as the port where Solomon assembled a Red Sea fleet (1 Kings 9:26).
Why it lands — The text states that Azariah rebuilt Elath and returned it to Judah following Amaziah’s death, requiring the reader to track how territorial control shifts with each royal succession without romanticizing the political restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
- 1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
- Deuteronomy 2:8 So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.
- 2 Chronicles 8:17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.
- 2 Chronicles 26:2 Uzziah was the one who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.