2 Kings 14:22

22 He built Elat, and restored it to Yehudah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

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 They brought him on horses; and he was buried at Yerushalayim with his fathers in the city of David.

21 All the people of Yehudah took `Azaryah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amatzyah.

22 He built Elat, and restored it to Yehudah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

23 In the fifteenth year of Amatzyah the son of Yo'ash king of Yehudah Yarov`am the son of Yo'ash king of Yisra'el began to reign in Shomron, [and reigned] forty-one years.

24 He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he didn't depart from all the sins of Yarov`am the son of Nevat, with which he made Yisra'el to sin.