◄ 2 Kings 14:22 ►
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Good News Translation
Uzziah reconquered and rebuilt Elath after his father's death.

New Revised Standard Version
He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah slept with his ancestors.

Contemporary English Version
Azariah was the one who later recaptured and rebuilt the town of Elath.

New American Bible
It was he who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after the king rested with his ancestors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.

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He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.

150 Roman miles from Gaza according to Pliny, but

1260 stadia, or

157 miles, according to Strabo and Marcianus Herecleota. It is now called Akaba, and is nothing but a tower of catle, surrounded by a large grove of date trees, the residence of a governor, dependent on him of Grand Cairo.

2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored Aila to Syria, and drove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and dwelt there unto this day.

Deuteronomy 2:8 And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.

1 Kings 9:26 And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

2 Chronicles 26:2 He built Ailath, and restored it to the dominion of Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.

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Context
Azariah Succeeds Amaziah in Judah
21And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias. 22He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Cross References
1 Kings 9:26
And king Solomon made a fleet in Asiongaber, which is by Ailath, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

2 Kings 14:21
And all the people of Juda took Azarias, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father, Amasias.

2 Kings 14:23
In the fifteenth year of Amasias, son of Joas, king of Juda, reigned Jeroboam, the son of Joas, king of Israel, in Samaria, one and forty years:

2 Kings 16:6
At that time Rasin, king of Syria, restored Aila to Syria, and drove the men of Juda out of Aila: and the Edomites came into Aila, and dwelt there unto this day.

2 Chronicles 8:17
Then Solomon went to Asiongaber, and to Ailath, on the coast of the Red Sea, which is in the land of Edom.

2 Kings 14:21
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