Place

Eloth

엘롯

Named at 1 Kings 9:26: “King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.”

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1KI 9:26–28, engwebp
²⁶King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
²⁷Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
²⁸They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.
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2CH 8:17–18, engwebp
¹⁷Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.
¹⁸Huram sent him ships and servants who had knowledge of the sea by the hands of his servants; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and brought from there four hundred fifty talents of gold, and brought them to King Solomon.
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2CH 26:1–5, engwebp
¹All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
²He built Eloth and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
³Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
⁴He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
⁵He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
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Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.

Unresolved interpretation: Elath of Deuteronomy 2:8 and Eloth of 1 Kings 9:26

Deuteronomy 2:8 says, “So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber.” The Korean Revised Version writes the name 엘랏.
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- DEU 2:8–9, engwebp
  ⁸So we passed by from our brothers, the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
  ⁹The LORD said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
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1 Kings 9:26 says, “King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.” The Korean Revised Version writes the name 엘롯.
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- 1KI 9:26–28, engwebp
  ²⁶King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
  ²⁷Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, sailors who had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
  ²⁸They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to King Solomon.
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2 Kings 14:21–22 says, “All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. He built Elath and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.” The Korean Revised Version reads 14:22 아마샤가 그 열조와 함께 잔 후에 아사랴가 엘랏을 건축하여 유다에 돌렸더라, after Amaziah slept with his fathers, Azariah built Elath and restored it to Judah, and writes the name 엘랏.
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- 2KI 14:21–22, engwebp
  ²¹All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
  ²²He built Elath and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
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Deuteronomy 2:8 names Elath with Ezion Geber; 1 Kings 9:26 says that Ezion Geber, where King Solomon made a fleet of ships, is beside Eloth; and 2 Kings 14:22 says that Elath was built and restored to Judah (the Korean Revised Version says that Azariah built it after Amaziah slept with his fathers, and WEB says only “He built Elath”). In both editions Deuteronomy and 2 Kings write Elath (엘랏) and 1 Kings writes Eloth (엘롯). This collection records the Elath of 2 Kings with the Elath of Deuteronomy under one entry, as it does a place of the same name that the text does not place elsewhere, and keeps the differently written Eloth apart. The text does not say whether Eloth and Elath are the same place, and the collection does not decide whether they are.

Unresolved interpretation: Building Eloth and the king’s death in 2 Chronicles 26:2

The Korean Revised Version says at 26:2 that after the king slept with his fathers, Uzziah built Eloth and restored it to Judah.
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- 2CH 26:1–5, engwebp
  ¹All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
  ²He built Eloth and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
  ³Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
  ⁴He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
  ⁵He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
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WEB says, “He built Eloth and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.”
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- 2CH 26:1–5, engwebp
  ¹All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.
  ²He built Eloth and restored it to Judah. After that the king slept with his fathers.
  ³Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
  ⁴He did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
  ⁵He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him prosper.
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The editions’ order and reference to the king are kept separately. The collection does not resolve WEB’s pronouns or change one edition’s sequence to match the other.

Geographic sources & candidates

Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Elath” by name and 3 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Aqaba (confidence 527 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Aqaba
OpenBible.info confidence 527 of 1000 (current scholarship)
29.53068, 35
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Elath” (CC BY 4.0)
Tell el Kheleifeh
OpenBible.info confidence 103 of 1000 (current scholarship)
29.54718, 34.98026
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Elath” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (2) — Huram sends ships and seafarers who bring gold from Ophir, Judah makes Uzziah king; he builds Eloth and seeks God

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1 Kings 9:26 Open that verse

King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

2 Chronicles 8:17 Open that verse

Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of Edom.

2 Chronicles 26:2 Open that verse

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

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Entry: Eloth (place-eloth)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/eloth
Current wording: Named at 1 Kings 9:26: “King Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.”
Cited evidence: 1KI 9:26–28, engwebp / 2CH 8:17–18, engwebp / 2CH 26:1–5, engwebp
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