2 Chronicles 26:2

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

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אֵיל֔וֹת

ʼÊylôwth

H359

“Elath”

Noun, Proper

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Deuteronomy 2:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H352

TWOT: None

Elath or Eloth = "grove of lofty trees" - a port on the north-east arm of the Red Sea

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

11: words
11: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אֵיל֔וֹת Elath H359 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אֵיל֔וֹת Elath H359 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
4 nouns
1 pronoun
2 prepositions
1 particle

Verb forms

בָּנָ֣ה Qal · Perfect
וַיְשִׁיבֶ֖הָ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
שְׁכַֽב Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 26:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Kings 14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day.
2 Chronicles 8:17 Then went Solomon to Ezion Geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:23 Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
2 Chronicles 25:28 They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Chronicles 26:2 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

ה֚וּא בָּנָ֣ה אֶת אֵיל֔וֹת וַיְשִׁיבֶ֖הָ לִֽיהוּדָ֑ה אַחֲרֵ֥י שְׁכַֽב הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ עִם אֲבֹתָֽיו

He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 26:2 Septuagint · lemma form

αὐτός οἰκοδομέω ὁ αιλαθ αὐτός ἐπιστρέφω αὐτός ὁ ἰουδά μετά ὁ κοιμάω ὁ βασιλεύς μετά ὁ πατήρ αὐτός

He built Aelath, he recovered it to Juda, after the king slept with his fathers.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 26:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

2Ch 26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

Ver. 2. He built Eloth, &c.] See 2Ki 14:22.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

He fortified it and made it strong: this city was also called Elath and Elanon near to the red Sea.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

He built Eloth--or, "He it was who built Eloth." The account of the fortifications of this port on the Red Sea, which Uzziah restored to the kingdom of Judah (Ch2 33:13), is placed before the chronological notices (Ch2 26:3), either on account of the importance attached to the conquest of Eloth, or from the desire of the historian to introduce Uzziah as the king, who was known as the conqueror of Eloth. Besides, it indicates that the conquest occurred in the early part of his reign, that it was important as a port, and that Hebrew merchants maintained the old trade between it and the countries of the East [BERTHEAU].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 2. He built Eloth] 2Kg 14:21. This king is called by several different names; 2Kg 15:1.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(2) He built.—fie it was who built.

Eloth.—Kings, Elath. The Idumean port on the Red Sea.

The first four verses are identical with the parallel in Kings. (See the Notes there.)

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

2. Eloth] So spelt in 2Ch_8:17 (= 1Ki_9:26), but “Elath” in Deu_2:8; 2Ki_14:22. In 2Ki_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” (1Ch_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 2Ch_25:27. The meaning of the present passage will be that Uzziah built Elath after he became sole and undisputed king.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Juda, till the reign of Achaz, 4 K. xvi. 6. It had revolted under Joram. C.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

2. Built Eloth — Commonly written Elath; situated on the eastern arm of the Red Sea. See on 2Ki_14:22.

After that the king slept with his fathers — That is, after the king Amaziah, his father, slept with his fathers. These words indicate that Uzziah fortified Elath at the beginning of his reign, and soon after his father’s decease, and the work seems to have been a very notable act of his reign.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Eloth; Hebrew, twOlyaeAta,; the parallel reads tlyae. This place was at the head of the Gulf Akaba (2Ch_8:17; 1Ki_9:26) Judah had lost hold of it at a past revolt of Edom, and Uzziah, after his father"s crippling of Edom, seizes the opportunity of making it Judah"s again and rebuilding it, thus finishing very probably a work that he knew had been in his father"s heart to do. This consideration may explain alike the following clause in our verse. and the placing of this here. Uzziah charged himself to do it the first thing.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼÊylôwth (“Elath”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʼÊylôwth carries the sense “Elath.” How does it shape the verse?
Deuteronomy 2:8 shares the word «Elath» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «בָּנָ֣ה» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 11 Hebrew ↔ 18 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
11 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.