2 Chronicles 8:17 - Exposition

Ezion-geber … Eloth . Parallel, 1 Kings 9:26 , which describes the former of these ports as "beside" the latter, "on the Red Sea," i.e. at the extremity of the eastern gulf of the Red Sea, called the Elanitic Gulf by Greeks and Romans, but now the Gulf of Akabah ( Numbers 33:35-37 ; Deuteronomy 2:8 ; 2 Samuel 8:14 ; 1 Kings 22:48 ; 2 Kings 14:22 ; 2 Kings 16:6 ; 2 Chronicles 20:36 , 2 Chronicles 20:37 ). David's conquest of Edom was the occasion of its coming into the possession of Israel.