Aphek

Aphek in Naves Topical Bible

1. A city of the tribe of Asher Jos 19:30 Called APHIK Jud 1:31 -2. A city of the tribe of Issachar Philistines defeat Israelites at 1Sa 4:1-11 Saul killed at 1Sa 29:1 Probably the same city as mentioned in Joshua as a royal city of the Canaanites Jos 12:18 -3. A city between Damascus and Israel Ben-hadad defeated at 1Ki 20:26-30...

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Aphek Scripture - 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....

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Aphek in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(strength), the name of several places in Israel. 1. A royal city of the Canaanites, the king of which was killed by Joshua, Jos 12:18 probably the same as APHEKAH in Jos 15:53 2. A city, apparently in the extreme north of Asher, Jos 19:30 from which the Canaanites were not ejected, Jud 1:31 though here it is APHIK. This is probably the same...

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Aphek Scripture - 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....

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Aphek in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Judg. 1:31); Aphek (Josh. 13:4; 19:30), stronghold. (1.) A city of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple, "magnificent ruins" in a "spot of strange wildness and beauty", are still seen at Afka, on the north-west slopes of Lebanon, near the source of the river Adoni...

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Aphek Scripture - Joshua 13:4

From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that [is] beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:...

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Aphek in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("strength".) 1. Same as Aphekah (Joshua 15:58). A Canaanite royal city, the king of which was killed by Joshua (Joshua 12:18). 2. In the extreme N. of Asher (Joshua 19:30). The Aphik from which the Canaanites were not expelled (Judges 1:31). Probably too the Aphek on the N." border of the Amorites" (Joshua 13:4-5), the Aphaca of the classi...

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Aphek Scripture - 1 Samuel 29:1

Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which [is] in Jezreel....

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Aphek Scripture - Joshua 19:30

Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages....

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