He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah, after King Amaziah slept with his ancestors — Azariah's initial act, the recovery of Elath (אֵילַת, *Elath*), a crucial port on the Red Sea, restores Judean control of the crucial trade route to Arabia and Egypt. This recovery compensates for the territorial losses under Amaziah and signals Azariah's effective rule. Yet even this success will be circumscribed by his pride, as the next chapter reveals.

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