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Tel Lachish. / 31.56500°N 34.84889°E / 31.56500; 34.84889. Lachish ( Hebrew: לכיש; Ancient Greek: Λαχίς; Latin: Lachis) was an ancient Canaanite and Israelite city in the Shephelah ("lowlands of Judea") region of Israel, on the south bank of the Lakhish River, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.
- 20 ha (49 acres)
The siege of Lachish was the Neo-Assyrian Empire's siege and conquest of the town of Lachish in 701 BCE. The siege is documented in several sources including the Hebrew Bible, Assyrian documents and in the Lachish relief, a well-preserved series of reliefs which once decorated the Assyrian king Sennacherib's palace at Nineveh.
- 701 BCE
- Assyrian victory, Lachish captured
Jan 28, 2022 · The siege of Lachish is documented in multiple Assyrian texts and reliefs and is also clearly visible in the site’s archaeology. These various sources agree that Lachish eventually fell to the Assyrians, who built a massive siege ramp to reach the top of the city’s walls. The same tactic would later be used by the Romans in their siege of ...
LACHISH. la'-kish (lakhish; Septuagint Lachis ( Joshua 15:39 ), Maches): 1. Location: A town in the foothills of the Shephelah on the border of the Philistine plain, belonging to Judah, and, from the mention of Eglon in connection with it, evidently in the southwestern portion of Judah's territory.
Tell Lachish. Identified first as Lachish by Albright in 1929, the tell was excavated by James Leslie Starkey from 1932–38 and by Tel Aviv University from 1973–87. Lachish is generally regarded as the second most important city in the southern kingdom of Judah. It enters the biblical narrative in the battle accounts of Joshua, Sennacherib ...
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Lachish was numbered among cities allotted to the tribe of Judah ( 15:39 ). After Solomon’s death it was fortified by Rehoboam ( 2 Chron 11:9 ). Amaziah, king of Judah, sought refuge here when conspirators sought his life but he was pursued and slain in the city ( 2 Kings 14:19; 2 Chron 25:27 ).
Indeed, the Lachish reliefs show ladders that were certainly used for this very purpose.”15. Other evidence of the battle found at the southwestern corner of Tel Lachish includes over a dozen slingstones and a large number of arrowheads, as well as iron scales of armor. Once King Sennacherib’s army entered Lachish, they burned it down ...
