Tel Azekah is situated on a small hill providing a commanding view into the Elah Valley, where David killed Goliath. Even hundreds of years before this fateful battle occurred, Azekah appears in the Bible. Azekah comes in the scripture for the first time in the Book of Joshua, when Israelites defeated the Amorites (Joshua 10:6-11).
However, the most famous passage in the Bible describing Azekah is at the scene of David slaying the giant, Goliath. "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. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines"-says the Bible (I Samuel 17:1-2).
Later, David's grandson Rehoboam fortifies the city (II Chronicles 11:5-12). Azekah was such fortified that it remained one of the last Judean cities to be taken by the Babylonians in 588-587 BC (Jeremiah 34:6-7).
However, the most famous passage in the Bible describing Azekah is at the scene of David slaying the giant, Goliath. "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. And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines"-says the Bible (I Samuel 17:1-2).
Later, David's grandson Rehoboam fortifies the city (II Chronicles 11:5-12). Azekah was such fortified that it remained one of the last Judean cities to be taken by the Babylonians in 588-587 BC (Jeremiah 34:6-7).
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