2 Kings 14:22

22 He built Elath, and restored it to Juda, 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 And they brought him away upon horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers, in the city of David.

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

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

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:

24 And he did that which is evil before the Lord. He departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin.