Editing Adullam (section)

===Assyrian and Chaldean conquests===
In the late 8th-century BCE, the [[Book of Micah]] recalled the cities of the lowlands of Judah during a time of [[Assyria]]n encroachment in the country:<ref>{{Harvnb|Laato|1995|pp=213–215, esp. p. 214 (note 19)}}</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Rainey|1983|pp=15–16}}</ref> "I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of [[Maresha]]h, him that shall possess thee; he shall come even unto Adullam, O glory of Israel."<ref>{{bibleverse||Micah|1:15|HE}}, following the interpretation of the verse by [[Rashi]].</ref>

[[Sennacherib]], during his [[Sennacherib#War in the Levant|third military campaign]], despoiled many of the cities belonging to Judah.<ref>{{cite book|last=Luckenbill |first=D.D. |author-link=Daniel David Luckenbill |editor=James Henry Breasted |title=The Annals of Sennacherib|volume=2 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |date=1924|pages=32–33|oclc=610530695|url=https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/oip-2-annals-sennacherib |quote=As for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, forty-six of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number...I besieged and took. Two-hundred thousand, and one-hundred and fifty people, great and small, male and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle and sheep, without number, I brought away from them and counted as spoil. Himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem his royal city... The cities of his, which I had despoiled, I cut off from his land and to Mitinti, king of Ashdod, [and to] Padi, king of Ekron, [and to] Silli-bel, king of Gaza, I gave. And (thus) I diminished his land.}}</ref> The Assyrian period was followed by the rise of the [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]], a time marked by general unrest and the eventual [[Babylonian captivity|deportation of the inhabitants of Judah]] by the Neo-Babylonian army in the sixth century BCE.<ref>{{Harvnb|Faust|2012|pp=140–143}}</ref> Adullam, as with other towns of the region, would not have gone unaffected.