Then went Solomon to Eziongeber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.
Study Helps
Interpretation
This verse continues the thought already in view and fits the wider themes of temple and reform in 2 Chronicles.
Glossary
- Edom Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Buseira.
- Elath Place
- Grove; trees, ( Deut. 2:8 ), also in plural form Eloth ( 1 Kings 9:26 , etc. ); called by the Greeks and Romans Elana; a city of Idumea, on the east, i. e., the Elanitic, gulf, or the Gulf of Akabah, of the Red Sea. Modern identification: Aqaba.
- Ezion-geber Place
- The giant’s backbone (so called from the head of a mountain which runs out into the sea), an ancient city and harbour at the north-east end of the Elanitic branch of the Red Sea. Modern identification: Jezirat Faraun.
- Red Sea Place
- Biblical body of water. Modern identification: Gulf of Aqaba.