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LACHISH . a See also:

town of See also:great importance in S. See also:Palestine, often mentioned in the Tell el-Amarna tablets. It was destroyed by See also:Joshua for joining the See also:league against the See also:Gibeonites (Joshua x 31-33) and assigned to the tribe of See also:Judah (xv. 39). See also:Rehoboam fortified it (2 Chron. xi. 9). See also:King Amaziah having fled hither, was here murdered by conspirators (2 See also:Kings xiv. 19). See also:Sennacherib here conducted a See also:campaign (2 Kings xviii. 13) during which See also:Hezekiah endeavoured to make terms with him: the campaign is commemorated by bas-reliefs found in See also:Nineveh, now in the See also:British Museum (see G. See also:Smith's See also:History of Sennacherib, p. 69).

It was one of the last cities that resisted Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. xxxiv. 7). The meaning of See also:

Micah's denunciation (i. 13) of the See also:city is unknown. The Onomasticon places it 7 M. from See also:Eleutheropolis on the S. road, which agrees with the generally received See also:identification, Tell el-Hesi, an important See also:mound excavated for the Palestine Exploration Fund by See also:Petrie and See also:Bliss, 189o-1893. The name is preserved in a small See also:Roman site in the neighbourhood, Umm Lakis, which probably represents a later dwelling-See also:place of the descendants of the See also:ancient inhabitants of the city. See W. M. See also:Flinders Petrie, Tell el-Hesy, and F. J. Bliss, A Mound of many Cities, both published by the Palestine Exploration Fund. (R A.

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