Lachish was a Canaanite city. Douglas Petrovich presents five significant archeological finds at Lachish in the process of giving you a history of this important biblical city.
The following map from Bible Mapper shows Lachish in relation to other cities during the time when it fell to the Assyrian Sennacherib.
Douglas Petrovich is active on Academia.edu where you can find many of his papers. He is also the author of The World’s Oldest Alphabet, Origins of the Hebrews and Nimrod the Empire Builder.
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What fascinating information! Thank you for this!
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I am glad you liked it, Rebecca! Douglas Petrovich has been one of the scholars I trust with descriptions of the Ancient Near East and I love the maps from Bible Mapper. Blessings!
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Shared to Facebook! It was exciting!
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I am glad you liked this, Kim! Douglas Petrovich has done remarkable work aligned the biblical chronology with the ancient near east. Blessings!
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Lachish has fascinated me since learning about this city since seminary
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It was more important than I previously realized. Thank you and blessings, Jim!
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Thanks for sharing
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