Sokho (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sokho (Sh-;, and in Biblical Hebrew, in Mishnaic Hebrew) is the name of two towns in biblical Judah. One town was in the Hebron hill district, in the double tel called Khirbet Shuwaikah Fauka and Tahta, 6 km southwest of Eshtamoa. The other is in the lower hill country, in the Ela Valley between Adullam and Azekah. The Bible also mentions a Sokho in the Hefer region in the Sharon. The Philistines camped between the Ela Valley Sokho and Azekah before the encounter of David and Goliath. Rehoboam fortified the place. It was one of the cities occupied temporarily by the Philistines in the time of Ahaz. In that period it served as an administrative or storage center, being one of the four cities named on the la-melekh stamps of the Judean monarchy.