2 Chronicles 26:2 - Exposition

Eloth ; Hebrew, אֶת־אֵילוֹת ; the parallel reads אֵילַת . This place was at the head of the Gulf Akaba ( 2 Chronicles 8:17 ; 1 Kings 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.