English: In 721, the city of Samaria and the whole of N. Israel fell to Assyria. Under Manasseh, Judah was also subject to that power. Only when the Assyrian power weakened was Josiah of Judah able to exercise his power at Bethel and in the cities of Samaria (2 Kings xxiii. 15, 19 f.). There were still faithful Jewish communities left there (Jer. xii. 4ff.). On the number of Jews left in Judaea during the Exile, and the state of Jerusalem, see Jerusalem, ii., ch. x. On the fall of Jerusalem and the deportation of so many of its population, the Edomites pressed northwards on the Jewish territory, extending, it would appear, beyond Hebron. A number of the place-names of this period have not been inserted on the map because their sites are uncertain. For example, Altaku, where Sennacherib defeated an army of the confederate States of Palestine with Arabs and Egyptians (?), is probably the Eltekeh of Joshua xix. 43 ff., somewhere between Ekron and Jerusalem, and near Thimna.