if the Assyrians attacked Judah in 701 they did so via the Philistine coast and the Shephelah, the border location which included Micah's village of Moresheth, along with Lachish, Judah's 2nd biggest town. This in turn kinds the background to verses 1:eight–16, by which Micah warns the cities of the approaching catastrophe (Lachish is singled out