Footnote 2 – Destruction of Judean Fortress Portrayed in Dramatic Eighth-Century B.C. Pictures

One or two scholars still question the identity of Lachish. See, most recently, G. W. Ahlström, “Tell ed-Duweir: Lachish or Libnah?” Palestine Exploration Quarterly (July–December 1983). Ussishkin finds the identification for the site of Lachish “weighty.”