Bible Cities

Aphek Scripture - Joshua 12:18

The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;...

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Appii Forum in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(market-place of Appius), a well-known station on the Appian Way, the great road which led from Rome to the neighborhood of the Bay of Naples. Ac 28:15 There is no difficulty in identifying the site with some ruins near Treponti. [THREE TAVERNS]...

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Arabah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(Joshua 18:18) ("the plain", is akin to "Arabia".) The article in Hebrew marks it as some definite spot, namely, the deep sunken gorge extending from mount Hermon to the Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea; the most extraordinary depression on the earth. The Jordan rushes for 150 miles through its northern part (el Ghor) by lakes Huleh and Gennesare...

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Arabia Scripture - Jeremiah 25:24

And all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the desert,...

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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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Appii Forum in Easton's Bible Dictionary

i.e., "the market of Appius" (Acts 28:15, R.V.), a town on the road, the "Appian Way," from Rome to Brundusium. It was 43 miles from Rome. Here Paul was met by some Roman Christians on his way to the capital. It was natural that they should halt here and wait for him, because from this place there were two ways by which travellers might j...

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Arabah Scripture - Joshua 18:18

And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:...

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Antioch of Syria in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

an'-ti-ok, (Antiocheia). (2) Antioch in Syria.--In 301 BC, shortly after the battle of Ipsus, which made him master of Syria, Seleucus Nicator rounded the city of Antioch, naming it after his father Antiochus. Guided, it was said, by the flight of an eagle, he fixed its site on the left bank of the Orontes (the El- `Asi) about 15 miles fr...

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