2 Chronicles 26:2

Eloth So spelt in 2 Chronicles 8:17 (1 Kings 9:26), but "Elath" in Deuteronomy 2:8; 2 Kings 14:22. In 2 Kings 16:6 the two forms are found side by side in one verse. The word is probably of foreign origin, and such words are seldom of fixed form when adopted into common language; cp. the various forms of "Damascus" (1 Chronicles 18:5, note).

after that the king, etc.] We conjecture that this phrase means that it was after king Amaziah slept with his fathers that Uzziah his son restored Elath to Judah. If this be right, we must suppose that Uzziah reigned in Jerusalem for some time, while his father was in refuge at Lachish. Some years of history may be crowded into 2 Chronicles 25:27. The meaning of the present passage will be that Uzziah built Elath after he became sole and undisputed king.