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ACHZIB

(Heb. ʾaḵzîḇ)

1. A town in the Shephelah, belonging to the tribe of Judah (Josh. 15:44). A variant name of the town might be Chezib, where Judah’s Canaanite wife bore Shelah, his third son (Gen. 38:5). Eusebius (Onom. 172) identified the town with Chasbi, near Adullam. Scholars largely accept this identification, which corresponds with the modern Tell el-Beiḍā/µorvat Lavnin (145116), 5 km. (3 mi.) W of Adullam. The prophet Micah plays on its name, declaring that the houses of Achzib will be a deception (ʾaḵzāḇ) to the kings of Israel (Mic. 1:14).

2. An important city in antiquity located on the Mediterranean coast, along the Via Maris, ca. 14 km. (9 mi.) N of Acco. Until 1948 the tell was the site of the modern village of ez-Zib (1598.2727). The presence of the village precluded excavation of the mound, other than four extensive cemeteries, until the 1963-64 excavations by Moshe W. Prausnitz. Excavations have indicated that Achzib was occupied from the Middle Bronze Age to the Muslim period. During the Israelite period the city was assigned to the tribe of Asher (Josh. 19:29), but the biblical text claims that the tribe was unsuccessful in driving out its Canaanite inhabitants (Judg. 1:31). During MB the city was separated from the mainland by a deep fosse, joining the Wadi Qarn/Naḥal Keziv to the north with the bay to the south, turning the city into an island. The city reached its largest size during the Iron Age, extending east beyond the fosse, until it was conquered by Sennacherib during his third campaign in 701 b.c.e.

Ronald A. Simkins

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ACHZIB

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)