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22 After his father’s death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath and restored it to Judah.

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At that time the king of Edom[a] recovered the town of Elath for Edom.[b] He drove out the people of Judah and sent Edomites[c] to live there, as they do to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. 16:6a As in Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads Rezin king of Aram.
  2. 16:6b As in Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads Aram.
  3. 16:6c As in Greek version, Latin Vulgate, and an alternate reading of the Masoretic Text; the other alternate reads Arameans.

26 King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, a port near Elath[a] in the land of Edom, along the shore of the Red Sea.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:26a As in Greek version (see also 2 Kgs 14:22; 16:6); Hebrew reads Eloth, a variant spelling of Elath.
  2. 9:26b Hebrew sea of reeds.

“So we bypassed the territory of our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We avoided the road through the Arabah Valley that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber.

“Then as we turned north along the desert route through Moab,

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After his father’s death, Uzziah rebuilt the town of Elath[a] and restored it to Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. 26:2 As in Greek version (see also 2 Kgs 14:22; 16:6); Hebrew reads Eloth, a variant spelling of Elath.

17 Later Solomon went to Ezion-geber and Elath,[a] ports along the shore of the Red Sea[b] in the land of Edom.

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Footnotes

  1. 8:17a As in Greek version (see also 2 Kgs 14:22; 16:6); Hebrew reads Eloth, a variant spelling of Elath.
  2. 8:17b As in parallel text at 1 Kgs 9:26; Hebrew reads the sea.

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