2 Kings 16:6

16:6 (At that time King Rezin of Syria ¹  recovered Elat for Syria; he drove the Judahites from there. ²  Syrians ³  arrived in Elat and live there to this very day.)

Deuteronomy 2:8

2:8 So we turned away from our relatives ⁴  the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, ⁵  from Elat ⁶  and Ezion Geber, ⁷  and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.

Deuteronomy 2:1

The Journey from Kadesh Barnea to Moab

2:1 Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea ⁸  just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

Deuteronomy 9:26

9:26 I prayed to him: ⁹  O, Lord God, ¹⁰  do not destroy your people, your valued property ¹¹  that you have powerfully redeemed, ¹²  whom you brought out of Egypt by your strength. ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 9:2

9:2 They include the Anakites, ¹⁴  a numerous ¹⁵  and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

Deuteronomy 26:2

26:2 you must take the first of all the ground’s produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he ¹⁶  chooses to locate his name. ¹⁷ 

¹ 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.

² tn Heb “from Elat.”

³ 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.”

⁴ tn Or “brothers”; NRSV “our kin.”

⁵ tn Heb “the way of the Arabah” (so ASV); NASB, NIV “the Arabah road.”

⁶ sn Elat was a port city at the head of the eastern arm of the Red Sea, that is, the Gulf of Aqaba (or Gulf of Eilat). Solomon (1 Kgs 9:28), Uzziah (2 Kgs 14:22), and Ahaz (2 Kgs 16:5-6) used it as a port but eventually it became permanently part of Edom. It may be what is known today as Tell el-Kheleifeh. Modern Eilat is located further west along the northern coast. See G. Pratico, “Nelson Glueck’s 1938-1940 Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh: A Reappraisal,” BASOR 259 (1985): 1-32.

⁷ sn Ezion Geber. A place near the Gulf of Aqaba, Ezion-geber must be distinguished from Elat (cf. 1 Kgs 9:26-28; 2 Chr 8:17-18). It was, however, also a port city (1 Kgs 22:48-49). It may be the same as the modern site Gezirat al-Fauran, 15 mi (24 km) south-southwest from Tell el-Kheleifah.

⁸ tn Heb “Reed Sea.” See note on the term “Red Sea” in Deut 1:40.

⁹ tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 9:3.

¹⁰ tn Heb “Lord Lord” (אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה, ’adonay yÿhvih). The phrase is customarily rendered by Jewish tradition as “Lord God” (אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהִים, ’adonay ’elohim). See also the note on the phrase “Lord God” in Deut 3:24.

¹¹ tn Heb “your inheritance”; NLT “your special (very own NRSV) possession.” Israel is compared to landed property that one would inherit from his ancestors and pass on to his descendants.

¹² tn Heb “you have redeemed in your greatness.”

¹³ tn Heb “by your strong hand.”

¹⁴ sn Anakites. See note on this term in Deut 1:28.

¹⁵ tn Heb “great and tall.” Many English versions understand this to refer to physical size or strength rather than numbers (cf. “strong,” NIV, NCV, NRSV, NLT).

¹⁶ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

¹⁷ sn The place where he chooses to locate his name. This is a circumlocution for the central sanctuary, first the tabernacle and later the Jerusalem temple. See Deut 12:1-14 and especially the note on the word “you” in v. 14.