King James Version
2 Kings 14:22 in the King James Version says “He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 14 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.”
2 Kings 14:22 · KJV
And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
And all the people of Judah took Azariah, which was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
KJV Study — Public Domain
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and restored”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“it to Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
“after”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“with his fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
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