Elath

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Also called Eloth

A city of Idumea

• Deuteronomy 2:8 So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.
• 1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
• 2 Chronicles 8:17 Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.

Conquest of, by Uzziah

• 2 Chronicles 26:2 Uzziah was the one who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.

By the Syrians

• 2 Kings 16:6 At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.