At that time the king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, and drove the people of Judah from Elath; and the Arameans came to Elath, where they have remained to this day — the note that Rezin recovered Elath (אֵילַת, *Elath*), the crucial Red Sea port earlier recovered by Azariah, indicates that the Syro-Ephraimite crisis involved broader territorial losses beyond the Jerusalem siege. The phrase "drove the people of Judah from Elath" suggests forcible evacuation. Rezin's achievement in recovering this strategic port—connecting Judah to trade routes to Arabia and Africa—represents a significant strategic gain. The phrase "where they have remained to this day" indicates the narrator's perspective: from some later vantage point, Elath remains under Aramean (or later foreign) control, a permanent loss from Judean perspective.

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