2 Kings 14:22

22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah, after 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 upon horses; and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

21 And all the people of Judah took Azari'ah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amazi'ah.

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

23 In the fifteenth year of Amazi'ah the son of Jo'ash, king of Judah, Jerobo'am the son of Jo'ash, king of Israel, began to reign in Sama'ria, and he reigned forty-one years.

24 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jerobo'am the son of Nebat, which he made Israel to sin.