What happened at Aphek.
A city of the tribe of Issachar, near to Jezreel (1 Sam. 4:1; 29:1; comp. 28:4).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
All 4 verses that name this Aphek.
Joshua 1
- Joshua 12:18The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
1 Samuel 2
- 1 Samuel 4:1And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
- 1 Samuel 29:1Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.
Acts 1
- Acts 23:31Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
Other places called Aphek.
Aphek, about 118 km (73 miles) north of Jerusalem.
A town, named in 3 verses.
- 1 Kings 20:26And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
- 1 Kings 20:30But 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 Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
- 2 Kings 13:17And 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.
Aphek, about 119 km (74 miles) north of Jerusalem.
A town, named in 1 verse.
- Joshua 19:30Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
Aphek, about 261 km (162 miles) north of Jerusalem.
A city, named in 1 verse.
- Joshua 13:4From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: