Lachish

Sources and location confidence

Location confidence

Very High

Tel Lachish

31.5650, 34.8489

Its location is conclusive, evidenced by Sennacherib's relief and the Lachish letters, among other material evidence.

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Related Bible passages

These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.

• Joshua 10:3

  Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

• 2 Kings 14:19

  Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

• 2 Chronicles 11:9

  And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

• Nehemiah 11:30

  Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

• Isaiah 36:2

  And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

• Jeremiah 34:7

  When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

• Micah 1:13

  O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

• Joshua 10:5

  Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.

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