2 Kings 16:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

2 Kings 16:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 14:22
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
1 Kings 9:26
And 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.
2 Chronicles 26:2
He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
Deuteronomy 2:8
And 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.

Topics

Achaz Ahaz Elath Eloth Hebrew Israel, Prophecies Concerning Jews

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 5-9)

Here is, 1. The attempt of his confederate neighbours, the kings of Syria and Israel, upon him. They thought to make themselves masters of Jerusalem, and to set a king of their own in it, Isa. 7:6. In this they fell short, but the king of Syria recovered Elath, a considerable port upon the Red Sea, which Amaziah had taken from the Syrians, 2 Kgs. 14:22. What can those keep that have lost their rel…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Rezin ... recovered Elath--which Azariah had got into his possession (2Ki 14:22). the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day--The Septuagint version has “the Edomites,” which the most judicious commentators and travellers [Robinson] prefer.