Meaning of “Achish”

1. Achish — angry, perhaps only a general title of royalty applicable to the Philistine kings. (1.) The king with whom David sought refuge when he fled from Saul (1 Sam. 21:10-15). He is called Abimelech in the superscription of Ps. 34. It was probably this same king to whom David a second time repaired at the head of a band of 600 warriors, and who assigned him Ziklag, whence he carried on war against the surrounding tribes (1 Sam. 27:5-12). Achish had great confidence in the valour and fidelity of David (1 Sam. 28:1,2), but at the instigation of his courtiers did not permit him to go up to battle along with the Philistine hosts (1 Sam. 29:2-11). David remained with Achish a year and four months. (2.) Another king of Gath, probably grandson of the foregoing, to whom the two servants of Shimei fled. This led Shimei to go to Gath in pursuit of them, and the consequence was that Solomon put him to death (1 Kings 2:39-46).

2. Lachish — impregnable, a royal Canaanitish city in the Shephelah, or maritime plain of Palestine (Josh. 10:3, 5; 12:11). It was taken and destroyed by the Israelites (Josh. 10:31-33). It afterwards became, under Rehoboam, one of the strongest fortresses of Judah (2 Chr. 10:9). It was assaulted and probably taken by Sennacherib (2 Kings 18:14, 17; 19:8; Isa. 36:2). An account of this siege is given on some slabs found in the chambers of the palace of Koyunjik, and now in the British Museum. The inscription has been deciphered as follows:, "Sennacherib, the mighty king, king of the country of Assyria, sitting on the throne of judgment before the city of Lachish: I gave permission for its slaughter." (See NINEVEH »T0002735.) Lachish has been identified with Tell-el-Hesy, where a cuneiform tablet has been found, containing a letter supposed to be from Amenophis at Amarna in reply to one of the Amarna tablets sent by Zimrida from Lachish. This letter is from the chief of Atim (=Etam, 1 Chr. 4:32) to the chief of Lachish, in which the writer expresses great alarm at the approach of marauders from the Hebron hills. "They have entered the land," he says, "to lay waste...strong is he who has come down. He lays waste." This letter shows that "the communication by tablets in cuneiform script was not only usual in writing to Egypt, but in the internal correspondence of the country. The letter, though not so important in some ways as the Moabite stone and the Siloam text, is one of the most valuable discoveries ever made in Palestine" (Conder's Tell Amarna Tablets, p. 134). Excavations at Lachish are still going on, and among other discoveries is that of an iron blast-furnace, with slag and ashes, which is supposed to have existed B.C. 1500. If the theories of experts are correct, the use of the hot-air blast instead of cold air (an improvement in iron manufacture patented by Neilson in 1828) was known fifteen hundred years before Christ. (See FURNACE »T0001398.)

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Bible Search for “Achish”

1. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 35 — And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

2. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 34 — And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:

3. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 33 — Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

4. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 32 — And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

5. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 31 — And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

6. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 23 — And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

7. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 5 — Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.

8. Joshua Chapter 10 Verse 3 — Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

9. Joshua Chapter 12 Verse 11 — The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

10. Joshua Chapter 15 Verse 39 — Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

11. 1 Samuel Chapter 21 Verse 14 — Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

12. 1 Samuel Chapter 21 Verse 12 — And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

13. 1 Samuel Chapter 21 Verse 11 — And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

14. 1 Samuel Chapter 21 Verse 10 — And David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

15. 1 Samuel Chapter 27 Verse 12 — And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

16. 1 Samuel Chapter 27 Verse 10 — And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

17. 1 Samuel Chapter 27 Verse 9 — And David smote the land, and left neither man nor woman alive, and took away the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel, and returned, and came to Achish.

18. 1 Samuel Chapter 27 Verse 6 — Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

19. 1 Samuel Chapter 27 Verse 5 — And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

20. 1 Samuel Chapter 27 Verse 3 — And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

21. 1 Samuel Chapter 27 Verse 2 — And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

22. 1 Samuel Chapter 28 Verse 2 — And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.

23. 1 Samuel Chapter 28 Verse 1 — And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.

24. 1 Samuel Chapter 29 Verse 9 — And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

25. 1 Samuel Chapter 29 Verse 8 — And David said unto Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this day, that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

26. 1 Samuel Chapter 29 Verse 6 — Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the LORD liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favor thee not.

27. 1 Samuel Chapter 29 Verse 3 — Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?

28. 1 Samuel Chapter 29 Verse 2 — And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.

29. 1 Kings Chapter 2 Verse 40 — And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

30. 1 Kings Chapter 2 Verse 39 — And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish son of Maachah king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants be in Gath.

31. 2 Kings Chapter 14 Verse 19 — Now they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem: and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

32. 2 Kings Chapter 18 Verse 17 — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

33. 2 Kings Chapter 18 Verse 14 — And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

34. 2 Kings Chapter 19 Verse 8 — So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

35. 2 Chronicles Chapter 11 Verse 9 — And Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

36. 2 Chronicles Chapter 25 Verse 27 — Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the LORD they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent to Lachish after him, and slew him there.

37. 2 Chronicles Chapter 32 Verse 9 — After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,

38. Nehemiah Chapter 11 Verse 30 — Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

39. Isaiah Chapter 36 Verse 2 — And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

40. Isaiah Chapter 37 Verse 8 — So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

41. Jeremiah Chapter 34 Verse 7 — When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.

42. Micah Chapter 1 Verse 13 — O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

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