2 Kings 14:22

22 He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.

2 Kings 14:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 14:22

He built Elath
A port which belonged to Edom, ( Deuteronomy 2:8 ) ( 1 Kings 9:26 ) which very probably David took from them when he made them tributary, and which they retook when they revolted, and Amaziah got again when he defeated them; and this his son rebuilt and fortified:

and restored it to Judah;
annexed it to the kingdom of Judah, as in the days of David and Solomon:

after that the king slept with his fathers;
after the death of his father Amaziah.

2 Kings 14:22 In-Context

20 Then they carried him on the horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David.

21 All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah.

22 He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors.

23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, [reigning] forty-one years.

24 But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "fathers"