LACHISH, a City Southward of the Tribe of Judah, Joshua x. 23. xv. 39. Eusebius and St. Jerom tell us, that in their Time there was a Village called Lachish, seven Miles from Eleutheropolis, Southward: Sennacherib besieged Lachish, but did not take 2 Kings xviii. 17. xix. 8. and 2 Chr. xxxiv. 9. Lacus. Ita passim in vulgata. Gen. xxxvii. 20. xl. 15. Levit. xi. 36. & saepius. Mark xii. 1. Rev. xix. 19, 20. Ps. xxvii. 1. cxliii. 7. xxx. 4. lxxxviii. 7. Prov. i. 12. Isai. xiv. 15, Joseph. Antiq.it. It was from thence that he sent Rabshakeb against Jerusalem.
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