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== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69634" /> == | == People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69634" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> [[Azekah]] (''a-zç'kah'' ), ''dug over, broken, up.'' [[A]] place to which Joshua's pursuit of the [[Amorites]] extended after the battle for the relief of Gibeon. Joshua 10:10-11. It stood in the plain country of Judah, to which tribe it was allotted. Joshua 15:35. In later times we find the [[Philistines]] pitching near it, 1 Samuel 17:1; it was fortified by Rehoboam, 2 Chronicles 11:9, and was one of the last towns taken by [[Nebuchadnezzar]] in Zedekiah's reign before [[Jerusalem]] fell. Jeremiah 34:7. It was again inhabited after the return from captivity. Nehemiah 11:30. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_64887" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_64887" /> == |