Achzib

Achzib was a fortified Phoenician port on the Mediterranean coast in the inheritance of Asher (Joshua 19:29). When Israel settled the land, Asher failed to drive out its inhabitants, leaving the Canaanites and Phoenicians to continue living there alongside the tribe (Judges 1:31). The Hebrew name (akhziv) puns on a word meaning "deceit" or "disappointment," and the prophet Micah later played on this in his lament: "the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing (akhzab) to the kings of Israel" (Micah 1:14).