2 Kings 14:22

14:22 Azariah ¹  built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king ²  had passed away. ³ 

2 Kings 16:6

16:6 (At that time King Rezin of Syria ⁴  recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. ⁵  Syrians ⁶  arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)

¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Azariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² sn This must refer to Amaziah.

³ tn Heb “lay with his fathers.”

⁴ tc Some prefer to read “the king of Edom” and “for Edom” here. The names Syria (Heb “Aram,” אֲרָם, ’aram) and Edom (אֱדֹם, ’edom) are easily confused in the Hebrew consonantal script.

⁵ tn Heb “from Elat.”

⁶ tc The consonantal text (Kethib), supported by many medieval Hebrew mss, the Syriac version, and some mss of the Targum and Vulgate, read “Syrians” (Heb “Arameans”). The marginal reading (Qere), supported by the LXX, Targums, and Vulgate, reads “Edomites.”