KJV King James Version
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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2 Kings 14:22
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Azariah was the one who rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
WEB World English Bible
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
ASV American Standard Version
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
he hath built Elath, and bringeth it back to Judah, after the lying of the king with his fathers.
Surrounding context — 2 Kings 14
19 Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
20 And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which [was] sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
23 In 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 reigned] forty and one years.
24 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which [was] of Gathhepher.
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ה֚וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itבָּנָ֣הH1129 · ba.nahto buildאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]אֵילַ֔תH359 · e.latElathוַיְשִׁבֶ֖הָH7725 · shuvto return: returnלִֽיהוּדָ֑הH3063 · ye.hu.dahJudahאַחֲרֵ֥יH310 · a.charafterשְׁכַֽב־H7901 · sha.khavto lie down: lay downהַמֶּ֖לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingעִם־H5973 · imwithאֲבֹתָֽיו׃ פH1 · avfather
Cross-references
2 Kings 16:6At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.1 Kings 9:26And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which [is] beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.Deuteronomy 2:8And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.2 Chronicles 8:17Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.2 Chronicles 26:2He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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