Tel Lachish

wicked fools won't travel on it no lion will be there nor will any ferocious beasts get on it they won't be found there only the redeemed will walk there and those the lord has rescued will return they'll enter zion with singing everlasting joy will crown their heads gladness and joy will overtake them and sorrow and sighing will flee away Isaiah Chapter 36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Then the king of Assyria sent his field commander with a large army from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem.

He stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the washer's field.

Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator, Shebna, the secretary, and Joah, son of Asaph, the recorder, went out to meet him.

Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’” When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, Isaiah said to them, “Say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’” The Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

Now the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “He has set out to fight against you.” And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction.

So in, in verse 13 it says that, "Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against, uh, all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish saying, 'I've done wrong.

[laughs] I messed up here.

Turn away from me.

In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a great army.

And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway to the washer’s field.

And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

And the Gibeonite men were strong warriors.

So King Adonai Zedek of Jerusalem sent messages to several other kings, Haram of Hebron, Piram of Jamath, Japhia of Lachish, and Deborah of Eglon.

Come and help me destroy Gibeon, he urged them, for they have made peace with Joshua and the people of Israel.

So these five Amorite kings combined their armies for a united attack.

However, while Schliemann would always have been faced with the potential that Troy was a mythical place from Homer's imagination, Early Holy Land theologian explorers like Robinson understood the Bible as beyond question.

Although Robinson was pretty successful, he did miss some of the major biblical towns, including Joshua's Jericho and Lachish, the site of a famous battle between King Hezekiah's forces and the Assyrians.

Unlike the example of Bethel, the modern Arabic names of these places did not bear any resemblance to their biblical Hebrew counterparts.

He failed to identify these famous biblical cities because he did not understand the phenomenon of tells.