He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
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Interpretation
Amaziah survived his conqueror fifteen years. He was slain by his own subjects.
Glossary
- 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.