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	Azekah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Azekah - dug over - a town in the Shephelah or low hills of Judah.
		Azekah guarded the upper reaches of the Valley of Elah.
		Lachish and Azekah were the last two towns to fall for the Babylonians before the overthrow of Jerusalem itself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azekah (182 words)

	Azekah - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
		Azekah’s closest neighboring city, Socoh, lay only two miles to the southeast along the southern hillside of the valley.
		On one occasion, the Philistines camped on the southern side of the Valley of Elah between the cities of Socoh and Azekah.
		When Nebuchadnezzar established the Babylonian domination of Judah in 588-587 B.C., the southern outpost city of Azekah was one of the last remaining Judean cities to be taken (Jer 34:6,7).
	www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/azekah.htm (450 words)

	Biblical Sites - Tour Israel - www.israelmybeloved.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Overlooking the modern village of Kfar Zecharya is a tel that archeologists have identified as the Biblical Azekah.
		Located near the Valley of Elah, Azekah was used as the main base of attack by the Philistines led by Goliath.
		Amid the destroyed gate of Lachish, the sad letter read, "the signal fire of Azekah has gone out." The loss of hope due to the loss of their sister city’s signal is obvious.
	www.israelmybeloved.com /tour/biblical_sites/lbs_azekah.htm (219 words)

	Azekah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		: In the Bible the first reference to Azekah was during Joshua's conquest of the land when Joshua was called upon to aid the men of Gibeon from the coalition of southern kings (Joshua 10:1-15).
		It was between Socoh and Azekah that the fight was decided with David taking off the giants head.
		In the Lachish Letters (#4) it was Azekah that the men of Lachish watched in the middle of the night for their fire signals that all was well, but none burned.
	www.dabar.org /Israel/Azekah/Azekah.html (422 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - AZEKAH: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eusebius relates that a village, Ezekah, was to be found between Eluethe-ropolis and Elia.
		Azekah existed before the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.
		After the return from the Exile it was resettled by the tribesmen of Judah (Neh.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=2207&letter=A (126 words)

	Saul the King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At length David returned to his father's house and to his wonted avocation as a shepherd for perhaps some three years.
		The Philistines once more invaded the land, and gathered their army between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim, on the southern slope of the valley of Elah.
		Saul and the men of Israel went forth to meet them, and encamped on the northern slope of the same valley which lay between the two armies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Saul_of_Israel (1583 words)

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		Each were the sons and daughters of a single family, saved by their gods for their devotion: the empires of Ta-Maat and Hazur, their vassals, Ta-Nehesi and Azekah, the northern kingdom of Shushan, the islands of Kypros, and the fiercely faithful twelve tribes of Malkhut.
		It was in the scattered tribes of Azekah that a hero arose, Zebub, who reasoned that long ago, men had withstood the Nephilim until the gods struck them both down.
		Driven into the harsh desert, the once-settled Azekah became tribes of nomads, living in harmony with their hostile surroundings, eking a living through herding and trade, and paying tribute to the great nation of Hazur in return for their queen's protection.
	www.tasteslikephoenix.com /covenant/olam.html (2228 words)

	That the World May Know ::: Azekah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Azekah overlooks the Valley of Elah, a strategic passageway from Israel’s coastal plain, through the foothills, and into the Judean Mountains beyond.
		Tel Azekah is a five-acre site overlooking the Valley of Elah—the place where David killed Goliath.
		Located in the Shephelah, Azekah guarded an important gateway to the mountains.
	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=1744 (188 words)

	Elah Valley (BiblePlaces.com)
		This strategic city was wisely fortified by Rehoboam, and it was one of the last cities to fall to the Babylonians in the invasion of Judah in 586 B.C. The valley below is the location of the battle of David and Goliath.
		Azekah (Walking in Their Sandals) Gives easy-to-read information on the location, biblical significance, etc. Features links to photographs and on-line Scripture references.
		Azekah (dabar.org) Presents both archaeological and historical highlights from each of the major periods of Israel's ancient history.
	www.bibleplaces.com /elahvalley.htm (636 words)

	Azekah (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		a-ze'-ka 'azekah: A town of some importance in the Shephelah of Judah mentioned (Joshua 15:35) next to Socoh.
		"Azekah and the towns (margin, "daughters") thereof" is mentioned among the cities reoccupied by Jews returning after the Exile (Nehemiah 11:30).
		Its position as a frontier fortress is comparable with that of Lachish: the name Zakareyeh, seems to be a survival of Azekah.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/1012 (359 words)

	bible.org: ISBE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The bodies were then cast into the cave where they had sought to hide, and great stones were rolled against the entrance.
		The flight of the allies was past Beth-boron and Azekah to Makkedah.
		Azekah is not identified, but it is named with Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah (Josh 15:41).
	www.bible.org /isbe.asp?id=5715 (533 words)

	RSVP-Tours-Israel - Contact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But whatever you do, try to visit the garden in the quiet time before the sun sets or in the early morning when the birds’ first serenade is heard.
		Azekah is mentioned several times in the Bible and from our vantage point it is clear why a beacon would be sited here.
		When Nebuchadnezzar imposed Babylonian domination on Judah in 588-587 B.C.E, the southern outpost city of Azekah was one of the last Judean cities to be taken (Jeremiah 34:6-7).
	www.grabthebasics.com /rsvp2/articles.asp (2326 words)

	Nehemiah 11:30 Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish
		Zanoah, Adullam, and their hamlets, in Lachish and its fields, in Azekah and its dependent villages: and they encamped from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
		Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof.
		Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its small towns; and they encamp from Beer-Sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
	www.bible.cc /nehemiah/11-30.htm (230 words)

	AZEKAH in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
		a-ze'-ka `azekah: A town of some importance in the Shephelah of Judah mentioned (Josh 15:35) next to Socoh.
		In Josh 10:10 the defeated kings of the Arnorites are described as flying before Joshua "by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon....
		"Azekah and the towns (margin, "daughters") thereof" is mentioned among the cities reoccupied by Jews returning after the Exile (Neh 11:30).
	www.bible-history.com /isbe/A/AZEKAH (313 words)

	DAVID (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Turn in your Bibles to the book of (1 Samuel 17: 1- 2) Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
		And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
		In this passage of scripture it says they were between Shochoh and Azekah.
	his-glory.org /D&G-3.htm (3774 words)

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	www.freewebs.com /ahiazekah (630 words)

	Jeremiah - Chapter 34 - Coffman's Commentary of the New Testament on StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This refers to the surrounding cities in Palestine which were fortified towns and would of necessity be captured prior to the assault against Jerusalem the major stronghold.
		Lachish and Azekah (Jeremiah 34:7) were the last two of these to hold out against the Chaldeans.
		Lachish was located 23 miles southwest of Jerusalem, and Azekah was eleven miles north of Lachish.
	www.studylight.org /com/bcc/view.cgi?book=jer&chapter=34&verse=9#Jer34_9 (2250 words)

	Jeremiah 34:6-7
		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.
		There is then no doubt but that he deposited his life in God's hand, and offered himself, as it were, a sacrifice, when he dared openly to threaten the king, which could not have been done without offending him; and
		This, then, was no unsuitable way of indirectly exposing to ridicule the vain confidence of the king, who still thought that he could overcome the enemy, though he was master only of three cities, that is, Jerusalem, Lachish, and Azekah.
	www.ccel.org /c/calvin/comment3/comm_vol20/htm/vi.iv.htm (388 words)

	The Babylonian chronicle and the Lachish letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Lachish letters were written by the commander of Lachish who was under siege.
		Letter IV seems to indicate that the city of Azekah had fallen.
		This historic event confirms the biblical account found in Jeremiah 34:6-7 which says: "Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem, when the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah that were left, against
	www.biblehistory.net /Chap33.htm (1312 words)

	Lachish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As the Babylonian army advanced through the Shephelah region towards Lachish, the unknown commander of the outpost wrote to his superior at Lachish that "...we are watching for the signals of Lachish, according to all the indications which my lord gave, for we cannot see [the signal fire of] Azekah".
		Jeremiah records that Azekah and Lachish were the last cities to fall to the Babylonians before they lay siege to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 34:7).
		After the Captivity, although the region of Lachish was part of the Persian province of Idumaea, returning Jews resettled the city (Nehemiah 11:30).
	www.bibarch.com /ArchaeologicalSites/Lachish.htm (1015 words)

	Joshua 10:10 The LORD confused them before Israel, and he killed
		Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
		And Jehovah discomfited them before Israel, and he slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
		And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon; and they chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
	www.bible.cc /joshua/10-10.htm (317 words)

	Azekah
		Tel Azekah is a five-acre site overlooking the Valley of Elah.
		The valley of Elah, which lies below Azekah, was the site of the battle between David and Goliath (1 Sam.
		The Philistine army was camped near Azekah, while the Israelites were on the other side of the valley.
	community.gospelcom.net /Brix?pageID=1520 (209 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		And your servant [that is, Hoshayahu] is not sending him today, but rather early in the morning.
		And [you should] know that we keep watching for the beacons of Lachish, according to the signs my master gave us, for we no longer see [the beacons] of Azekah.
		We are reading, even if it is not clear whether Hoshayahu realizes it, about the fall of Azekah, the fire of whose signal beams has gone out — no doubt because the Babylonians have captured it.
	www.forward.com /issues/2002/02.07.05/arts3.html (623 words)

	Good News Bible Reading Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The last of the fortified cities of Judah to fall were Lachish and Azekah (Jer.
		34:7) The sentence: 'We are watching for the signals of Lachish, according to all the indications which my lord hath given, for we cannot see Azekah,' in one of the Lachish Letters (no. 4), was obviously written after the fall of Azekah (which was soon to come)" (Yohanan Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah, 1977, p.
		Regarding what they document about this period, Expositor's adds: "Evidence for the Fall of Azekah (Letter IV), written soon after Jer 34:7, is particularly revealing.
	www.ucgstp.org /bible/brp/jer21.htm (955 words)

	The New American Bible - IntraText
		while the armies of the king of Babylon were attacking Jerusalem and the remaining cities of Judah, Lachish, and Azekah, since these alone were left of the fortified cities of Judah.
		This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made an agreement with all the people in Jerusalem to issue an edict of emancipation.
		[7] Lachish and Azekah: fortress towns to the southwest of Jerusalem which Nebuchadnezzar besieged to prevent help coming to Jerusalem from Egypt.
	www.vatican.va /archive/ENG0839/__PQC.HTM (907 words)

	Lachish Letters by Rob Halverson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These letters seem to show that Azekah had just fallen, and just after the last of the Lachish letters was written, in 588 BC, Lachish itself fell.
		Wright, R. "Lachish and Azekah were the only fortified cities of Judah that remained’ (Jeremiah 34:7)," Biblical Archaeology Review 8, 6 (1982), 72-73.
		The text speaks of signal fires of Lachish as well as Azekah, so we know the general situation in which they were written - that of war and impending doom, possibly of at least two cities.
	www.georgefox.edu /academics/seminary/courses/bst550/reports/RHalverson/LachishLet.html (2366 words)

	Bible History Online - Lachish Letters (Biblical Archaeology)
		Most of the letters were dispatches from a Jewish commander named Hoshaiah who was stationed at an outpost north of Lachish, who apparently was responsible for interpreting the signals from Azekah and Lachish during the time when the:
		These final communications which mentioned the political and religious turmoil of the last days of Judah reveal the intensity of this time period and confirm that which was written in the Bible by the prophet Jeremiah.
		Nebuchadnezzar moved on to Lachish and nearby Azekah, the last two major cities of Judah to be subdued by the Babylonians.
	www.bible-history.com /archaeology/israel/lachish-letters.html (492 words)

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