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.
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