Aphek

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. A city of the tribe of AsherJoshua 19:30
• Called APHIKJudges 1:31
• 2. A city of the tribe of Issachar
• Philistines defeat Israelites at1 Samuel 4:1–11
• Saul killed at1 Samuel 29:1
• Probably the same city as mentioned in Joshua as a royal city of the CanaanitesJoshua 12:18
• 3. A city between Damascus and Palestine
• Ben-hadad defeated at1 Kings 20:26–30

The passages, in Bible order (6)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 6 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Joshua 12:18

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

   ›Commentary on Joshua 12:181 voice

   “Aphek - There were several cities of this name: one in the tribe of Asher, Jos 19:30, another in the tribe of Judah, 1Sa 4:1; 1Sa 29:1; and a third in Syria, 1Ki 20:26, and 2Ki 13:17. Which of the two former is here intended cannot be ascertained. Lasharon - There is no city of this name known. Some consider the ל lamed in the word לשרון lashsharon to be the sign of the genitive case, and in this sense it appears to have been understood by the Vulgate, which translates rex Saron, the king of Sharon.

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2. Joshua 19:30

   Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two cities, along with their villages.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 19:301 voice

   “Twenty and two cities - There are nearly thirty cities in the above enumeration instead of twenty-two, but probably several are mentioned that were but frontier towns, and that did not belong to this tribe, their border only passing by such cities; and on this account, though they are named, yet they do not enter into the enumeration in this place. Perhaps some of the villages are named as well as the cities.

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3. Judges 1:31

   Asher failed to drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, and Rehob.

   ›Commentary on Judges 1:311 voice

   “Compare the marginal reference. Accho, afterward called Ptolemais, now Akka or St. Jean d’Acre, is named here for the first time.

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4. 1 Samuel 4:1–11

   Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 4:1–112 voices

   “Israel went out against the Philistines to battle--that is, to resist this new incursion. Aphek--Aphek, which means "strength," is a name applied to any fort or fastness.

   “Some attach the opening words to the close of 1 Sam. 3, as the complement of what is there said, “The Lord revealed himself to Samuel ... in Shiloh, and the word of Samuel went forth to all Israel.” If placed at the commencement of 1 Sam. 4, and in connection with what follows, they are to be understood in the sense that Samuel called all Israel to battle against the Philistines. (Compare 1Sa 7:5.) But this is not the natural interpretation of the words, which seem clearly to belong to what went before.

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5. 1 Samuel 29:1

   Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 29:12 voices

   “A person who compares the Bible account of Saul's last battle with the Philistines, with the region around Gilboa, has the same sort of evidence that the account relates what is true, that a person would have that such a battle as Waterloo really took place. Gilboa, Jezreel, Shunem, En-dor, are all found, still bearing the same names.

   “A fountain - Probably, the fine spring Ain-Jalud. It is impossible to say what the special circumstances were which led to the struggle between Israel and the Philistines taking place so far north as the plain of Jezreel. Possibly it was connected with some movements of the Aramaic tribes to the north of Palestine. See 2 Sam. 8.

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6. 1 Kings 20:26–30

   In the spring, Ben-hadad mobilized the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 20:26–301 voice

   “Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek - There were several towns of this name; see the notes on Jos 12:18. It is supposed that the town mentioned here was situated in Libanus, upon the river Adonis, between Heliopolis and Biblos.

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