Azekah
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Azekah in the Bible Dictionary
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A town of Judah
Josh 10:10, 11; 15:35; 1 Sam 17:1; 2 Chr 11:9; Neh 11:30; Jer 34:7
10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
Joshua 10:1011 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua 10:1135 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Joshua 15:351 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.
1 Samuel 17:19 And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
2 Chronicles 11:930 Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.
Nehemiah 11:307 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.
Jeremiah 34:7
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.