La Chapelle, Armand Boisbei.eau he, a French Protestant ■\vriter, was born at Ozillac (Saintongc) in 1676. He was a student at the college of Bordeaux when the revocation of the Edict of Nantes obliged him
to retire to England, where he was received by his grandfather, pastor of the Walloon Church at London. In 169-1 he was ordained, and soon afterwards sent to Ireland. Subsequently he became successivelj' pastor of Wandsworth, in the neighborhood of London, in 1696; of the chapel of the French artillery in that town in 1711 ; and linally pastor of the Walloon Church of the Hague in 1725. He died August 6. 1746. La Chapelle wrote lie flexions an siijet d^un sysi'eme pretendu nouveau sur le mijst'ere de la Trinite (Amst. 1729, 8vo) : — Examen de la maniere de j^recher des Protestants Franfuis, etc. (Amsterd. 1730, 8vo) : — Reponse a Mr. Mainard, ancien chanoine de St. Sernin de Toulouse, au sujet d'u7ie con/h-- ence sur la religion, etc. (La Haye, 1730, 4to) : — Entretien au sujet de la Lettre d'uji Theologien sur le mystere de la Trinite (La Haye, 1730, 8vo) : — Lettre d'un thiologien Reforme a un f/entilhomme Lutherien (Amst. 1736, 2 vols. 12mo) ; it is also known under the title Lettres sur I'on- vracje de corAroverse du P. Schaffmacher : — Memoires de Pologne, etc. (Lond. 1739, 12mo) : — Bescription des cere- monies observees a Rome depuis la mort de Clement XII jusqii'au couronnement de Benoit XIV, son successeur, etc. (Paris, 1741, 12mo): — De la Nicessite du adte pub- lic parmi les Chretiens (La Haye, 1746, 8vo ; Frankfort, 1747,2 vols. 12mo; transl. into Dutch, Amst. 1748, 8vo; into German, Breslau, 1749, 8vo; Lpz. 1769, 8vo). It is a defence of the course of the French Protestants in holding their assemblies du desert in spite of the edicts of the king: — Vie de Beausobre (in Beausobre's Remai-ques sur le N^ouveau Testament,\o\. ii). He wrote also in La Bibliotheque Anglaise, ou liistoire litteraire de la Grande- Bretagne (Amst. 1717-27, 15 vols. 12mo) : — Bibliotheque raisonnee des Ouvrages des Savants de rEurope (Amst. 1728-53, 52 vols. 12mo) : — N'ouvelle Bibliotheque, ou his- toire litteraire des jirincipaux ecriis qui se publient (La Haye, 1738 sq., 19 vols. 12mo). He also translated into French some works of Dition, Steele, Bentley, and Bur- net. See Querard, La France Litteraire ; Haag, La France Protest ante ; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gener. xxviii, 507. (J. N. P.)
La'chisli (Heb. Lalish', TIJ"^^?, prob. impregnable, otherwise smitten ; Sept. in Josh, and Kings Aaxi c ; in Chron., Neh., and Jer. Xaxi'tQ v. r. A«x(c ; in Isa. Aaxi'iQ V. r. Aa^'C or Aaxi'lQ ; in Mic. Aaxiig ; Joscphus AaxiQ, Ant. viii, 10, 1 ; also A«xfiff«, Ant. ix, 9, 3), a Caanan- itish royal city (Josh, xii, 11) in the southern part of Palestine, whose king Japhia joined the Amoritish con- federacy against Joshua (Josh, x, 3, 5) ; but he was taken (Josh. XV, 25), and his city destroyed by the victorious " Israelites, in spite of the re-enforcement of the king of Gezer (Josh, xv, 31-35, where its great strength is de- noted by the two days' assault). See Joshua. From these last passages it appears to have been situated be- tween Libnah and ICglon ; but it is mentioned between Joktheel and Bozkath, among the cities of the Philis- tine valley or plain of Judah (^Josh. xv, 39). It is men- tioned in connection with Adoraim and Azekah as hav- ing been rebuilt, or rather fortified, by Kehoboam against the Philistines (2 Chron. xi, 9), and seems after that time to have been regarded as one of the strongest for- tresses of the kingdom of Judah (for hither Amaziah was pursued and slain, 2 Kings xiv, 19; 2 Chron. xxv, 27), having for a time braved the assaults of the Assyr- ian army under Sennacherib on his way to Egypt (2 Kings xviii, 14, 17; xix,8; 2 Chron.xxxii,9; Isa. xxxvi, 2; xxxvii, 8); but was at length taken b\' Nebuchad- nezzar, at the downfall of the kingdom of Judah (Jer. xxxiv, 7). It was rcoccupied after the exile (Neh: xi, 30). The affright occasioned by these sudden attacks was predicted by the prophet Micah (i, 13), where this city, lying not very far from the frontiers of tlie king- dom of Israel, apjjcars to have been the first to intro- duce the idolatry of that commonwealth into Judaism. A detailed representation of the siege of some large Jew- ish city by Sennacherib has been discovered on the re- cently disinterred monuments of Assyria, which is there called Lakhisha, and presumed to be Lachish (Layard's
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Nineveh and Bahjlon, p. 152), although it does not. ap- pear from the Biblical account that this city yielded to ills arms; indeed, some exjiressions would almost seem to imply the reverse (see "thought to win them," 2 Chron. xxxii, 1 ; " departed from Lachish," 2 Kings xix, 8 ; and especially Jer. xxxiv, 7). Col. Kawlinson even reads the name of the city in question on the monu- ments as Luhaiia, i. e. Libnah (Layard, nt siiji. p. 153, note). Eawlinson also thinks that on the first attack at least Sennacherib did not sack the city {Herodotus, i, 481, note Gj. At all events, it woidd seem that, after the submission of Hezekiah, Sennacherib in some way re- duced Lachish, and marched in force against the Egyp- tians (Joseph. Ant. x, 1,1; comp. Isa. xx, 1-4). Ilaw- linson maintains (Herodotus, i,477) that Sennacherib at- tacked Lachish a second time, but whether on his re-