English Standard Version
2 Kings 14:22
22He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
2 Kings 14:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
- New International Version (NIV)He was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after Amaziah rested with his ancestors.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his fathers.
- New Living Translation (NLT)After his father’s death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.
Context of 2 Kings 14:22
20And they brought him on horses; and he was buried in 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 instead of his father Amaziah. He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers. 23In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, began to reign in Samaria, and he reigned forty-one years. 24And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.
Read all of 2 Kings 142 Kings 14:22 word by word
ה֚וּא בָּנָ֣ה אֶת־אֵילַ֔ת וַיְשִׁבֶ֖הָ לִֽיהוּדָ֑ה אַחֲרֵ֥י שְׁכַֽב־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ עִם־אֲבֹתָֽיו׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- He builtבָּנָהbânâh · to buildH1129
- Elathאֵילַת'êylôth 'êylath · ElathH359
- and restoredשׁוּבshûb · to return: rescueH7725
- it to Judahיְהוּדָהyehûdâh · JudahH3063
- afterאַחַר'achar · afterH310
- that the kingמֶ֫לֶךְmelek · kingH4428
- sleptשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: be deadH7901
- with his fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
Cross-references for 2 Kings 14:22
- 2 Kings 16:6At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.
- Deuteronomy 2:8So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. "And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
- 1 Kings 9:26King Solomon built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
- 2 Chronicles 26:2He built Eloth and restored it to Judah, after the king slept with his fathers.
Commentaries on 2 Kings 14:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22He 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Elath, 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.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-22Verses 15-22 Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects. Azariah, or Uzziah, seems to have been very young when his father was slain. Though the years of his reign are reckoned from that event, he was not fully made king till eleven years afterwards.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22Elath, built by Solomon (2 Chronicles 8:17) on the Gulf of Aqaba, served as a key trade gateway to the Red Sea.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. He built Elath--fortified that seaport. It had revolted with the rest of Edom, but was now recovered by Uzziah. His father, who did not complete the conquest of Edom, had left him that work to do. 2Ki 14:23-29. Jeroboam's Wicked Reign over Israel.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Kings 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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