Ahlab

Ahlab was a Phoenician town within Asher's allotted territory that the tribe failed to conquer, so its Canaanite inhabitants continued living there alongside the Israelites (Judges 1:31). It is generally identified with Khirbet el-Mahalib, a site on the Lebanese coast a few miles north of Tyre, matching "Mahalliba," a town among the Phoenician cities that submitted to the Assyrian king Sennacherib during his 701 BC campaign, recorded in his own annals. The identification rests on both geographic fit and the close sound of the two names.