Tiglath-pileser

Twice in a century the cities of upper Galilee fall — first to Ben-Hadad of Damascus paid by King Asa, then to Tiglath-pileser of Assyria deporting the north.

While King Ahaz of Judah was begging Tiglath-pileser of Assyria for help against Syria and northern Israel, the Philistines invaded the Shephelah and the Negev unopposed — capturing Gederoth, Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, Timnah, and other lowland towns.

The upper Galilee city of Kedesh-naphtali served as one of Israels six cities of refuge, a Levitical city for the Gershonites, the hometown of Barak whom Deborah summoned to fight Sisera, and finally fell to Tiglath-pileser III in the Assyrian deportation of Galilee.