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    Lachish

    לָכִישׁ

    Lachish, a fortified city in Judah, captured by Joshua and later by the Assyrians (Joshua 10; 2Ki.18.14, 19:8).

    Where the story of Lachish happens Lachish, and 1 place the claims reach, framed to them: Lachish, Eglon. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.LachishEglon
    Lachish, and 1 place the claims reach
    verses
    22
    first named
    Joshua 10:3
    last named
    Jeremiah 34:7
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    31.57°N · 34.85°E
    settlement31.57°N · 34.85°E

    Tell ed Duweir (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Lachish in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Lachish was a significant fortified city located in the Shephelah region of Judah (Joshua 15:39). It was one of the Amorite cities that formed an alliance against Joshua and the Israelites, but it was captured and its king was defeated (Joshua 10; 12:11). Later, Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, fortified Lachish as part of his defense strategy (2Ch.11.9). During the reign of King Amaziah, Lachish served as a refuge for the king when he fled from a conspiracy in Jerusalem (2Ki.14.19; 2Ch.25.27). In the time of King Hezekiah, the Assyrian king Sennacherib captured Lachish and used it as a base to send his officials to threaten Jerusalem (2Ki.18.14, 17; 19:8; 2Ch.32.9; Isaiah 36:2; 37:8). The city was one of the last fortified cities in Judah to fall to the Babylonians during the reign of Zedekiah (Jeremiah 34:7). After the Babylonian exile, Lachish was resettled by the people of Judah (Nehemiah 11:30). The prophet Micah also mentioned Lachish, urging the city to give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath (Micah 1:13).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Located in

    Stands in the same events as

    and 19 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Lachish is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 22 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA10 VERSESNEHEMIAH1 VERSEISAIAH–JEREMIAH3 VERSES33 books and 289 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 22 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA10 VERSESNEHEMIAH1 VERSEISAIAH–JEREMIAH3 VERSES33 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Lachish is named in 22 verses, and the name is written 24 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 59 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 22, across 7 books. The name is written 24 times in them.

    1. Joshua10 verses

      10:310:510:2310:3110:3210:3310:3410:3512:1115:39

    2. 2 Kings4 verses

      14:1918:1418:1719:8

    3. 2 Chronicles3 verses

      11:925:2732:9

    4. Nehemiah1 verse

      11:30

    5. Isaiah2 verses

      36:237:8

    6. Jeremiah1 verse

      34:7

    7. Micah1 verse

      1:13

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Territory of JudahAzekahJudean town, site of battles and sieges.via Territory of JudahBeershebaImportant city in southern Israel, associated with the patriarchs.via Territory of JudahBeth-shemeshCity in Judah, associated with the Ark's return.via Territory of JudahBethlehemCity of David's birth and Jesus' birth.via Territory of JudahJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsvia Territory of JudahJudahIsraelite tribe, kingdom, and provincevia Territory of JudahKiriath-jearimA city where the ark residedvia Territory of JudahTerritoryTerritory is a concept gathering 45 labelled instances in the text.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on