2 Kings 16:6
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
The passage falls in the chapters dealing with the kings of Israel from Joram through the dynasty of Jehu to the close of the kingdom under Hoshea, when Shalmaneser and Sargon of Assyria carried the tribes into captivity after a span of nearly three hundred years. The same span covers the contemporary kings of Judah from Ahaziah, Athaliah, Joash, Amaziah, Azariah also called Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, and Josiah to Jehoahaz. It includes the sixty-year ministry of Elisha ending in his death under Jehoash, and the prophesying of Hosea, Jonah, Amos, Joel, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Zephaniah, and Nahum. Throughout that history Judah always prospered under righteous and faithful rulers, and brought calamity upon rulers and people by turning from God to gross idolatry.
The verse belongs to the reign of Ahaz over Judah, who was a weak king. His reign came after Azariah and the good Jotham and before the good Hezekiah. It was a time when Judah was following Israel in departure from God and in idolatry on the way toward captivity. It records that Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, drove the Jews from Elath, and that Syrians came to Elath and dwelt there. That loss reveals the dark condition of the time, marked by sin and darkness during the reign of Ahaz.
The verse is the first use in the Bible of Jew in the plural. There it refers to descendants of the tribe of Judah and to people belonging to that tribe. It uses Jew for a member of the kingdom of Judah after the ten tribes had separated from it. It is one of the two occurrences of the term in 2 Kings.