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APHEK.—1. An unidentified city in the plain of Sharon (Jos_12:18). It may be the same as Aphek of 1Sa_4:1, and of Jos [Note: Josephus.] BJ II. xix. 1. 2. A city which Asher failed to take (Jos_13:4; Jos_19:30, Jdg_1:31). It may be Afqa, on Nahr Ibrahîm. 3. Some authorities identify this (1Sa_29:1) with No. 1, and make the Philistines advance upon Jezreel from the S.W. But if they approached from Shunem (1Sa_28:4), Aphek must have been in Esdraelon in the neighbourhood of el-Fûleh. 4. The place where Ahab defeated Benhadad (1Ki_20:26; 1Ki_20:30), in the Mîshôr, probably the modern Fîq, or Afîq, on the brow of the plateau, overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Possibly Joash smote the Syrians here (2Ki_13:17 ff.).
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