Sa mu el 346 the road, whenever the guards on the upper parts of the gates would see any suspicious movements there . There are two main reasons why Qeiyafa has been chosen by David instead of Azekah . Firstly, since Azekah is built on a very high hill, it takes a long time and effort for a large military unit to descend, and afterward to climb up back along the winding roads descending from the top of the high hill to the main highway down . Secondly, according to the excavations up to now, it seems that in the Israelite time of the Iron Age IIA, the settlement at Azekah was very small ( Lipschits, O . , Y . Gadot, & M . Oeming 2017 ) , and could not contain large military units . Therefore, David probably prefers Qeiyafa to Azekah for the military commissions . Yet at a later stage of David’s reign in Jerusalem, the Philistines became David’s vassals, and David integrated many Philistine warriors into his special units . At that time, part of the Israelite elite units with their comm...
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