Eltekeh

Eltekeh was a town in the inheritance of Dan in the Shephelah lowlands (Joshua 19:44) and one of four Danite cities set apart as Levitical cities for the Kohathites (Joshua 21:23). It rose to historical prominence during the Assyrian invasion of Judah in 701 BCE: Sennacherib's royal annals describe a great battle at Eltekeh where the Assyrians routed an Egyptian-Kushite relief force sent by Pharaoh Taharqa to break the siege of Jerusalem (paralleling 2 Kings 18-19 and Isaiah 36-37). The site is identified with Tel Shalaf in the inner Shephelah east of Ekron — one of the rare cases where biblical narrative and an ANE king's annals describe overlapping events.