2 Kings 14:22

He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

21Then all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.

23In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 2:8So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.

2 Kings 16:6At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.

2 Chronicles 26:2He was the builder of Eloth, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 14:16-23

Reign of Jeroboam, King of Israel. ( b. c. 825.) 15 Now 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? 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead. 17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years. 18 And the rest of the… Read the whole commentary →

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