2 Kings 14:22

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

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.

[14:22]  ¹ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Azariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[14:22]  ² sn This must refer to Amaziah.

[14:22]  ³ tn Heb “lay with his fathers.”

[2:8]  ⁴ tn Or “brothers”; NRSV “our kin.”

[2:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “the way of the Arabah” (so ASV); NASB, NIV “the Arabah road.”

[2:8]  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.

[2:8]  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.