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Aphek

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: A By: George A. Morrish

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1. Royal city of the Canaanites, the king of which was killed by Joshua (Josh. 12:18¹⁸The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; (Joshua 12:18)); probably the same as APHEKAH in Joshua 15:53⁵³And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah, (Joshua 15:53). Not identified.

2. City in the north border of Asher, from which in the time of Joshua the inhabitants were not expelled. (Josh. 13:4⁴From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: (Joshua 13:4); Josh. 19:30³⁰Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages. (Joshua 19:30)): called APHIK in Judges 1:31³¹Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: (Judges 1:31). Identified with Afka at the foot of the Lebanon between Baalbek and Byblus.

3. Place where the Philistines encamped when Israel was defeated (1 Sam. 4:1¹And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek. (1 Samuel 4:1)).

4. Where the Philistines encamped when Saul and Jonathan were killed (1 Sam. 29:1¹Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel. (1 Samuel 29:1)). Perhaps the same as No. 3.

5. City, the wall of which falling killed 27,000 of the Syrians (1 Kings 20:26,30²⁶And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. (1 Kings 20:26)
³⁰But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber. (1 Kings 20:30); 2 Kings 13:17¹⁷And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the Lord's deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them. (2 Kings 13:17)). It is identified with Fik, 32° 47' N, 35° 41' E, on the great road between Damascus and Jerusalem.

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