Pt 70 Commentary on Book of Mormon,Lachish Letters

The Book of Mormon's Sitz Im Leben is precisely shown in the Lachish Letters.

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• Letters

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LDS Source for Lachish Letters

Hugh Nibley, The Lachish Letters: Documents from Lehis Day, Ensign, Dec. 1981, 48

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A later king of Lachish fought against Joshua when the Israelites took the city about 1220 B.C. In a third phase, either David or Solomon fortified it strongly.

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About twenty-five miles southwest of Jerusalem in Lehis day lay the powerfully fortified city of Lachish, the strongest place in Judah outside of Jerusalem itself. Founded more than three thousand years before Christ, it was under Egyptian rule in the fourteenth century B.C. when the Khabiri (Hebrews) had just arrived. At that time, its king was charged with conspiring with the newcomers against his Egyptian master.