Aphek
Town
Location disputed Tel Ein Gev: about 120 km (75 miles) north of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Tel Ein Gev Possible
- Fiq Possible
- Tell Soreg Less likely
Another Aphek (town · Joshua 19:30) · Another Aphek (town · Joshua 12:18) · Another Aphek (town · Joshua 13:4)
Named in 3 Verses
- 1 Kings 20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
- 1 Kings 20:30 But 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 Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 2 Kings 13:17 And 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.
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