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Can you offer some historical notes on Lachish?

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It is mentioned in the Tell-el-Amarna letters and was one of the Amorite cities allied against the Gibeonites and destroyed by Joshua. Rehoboam fortified it, and Amaziah was murdered there. It was besieged (701 BC) by Sennacherib. Later, Micah denounced it.

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