town or village

Aphek

• Today Tel Ein Gev
• Location disputed

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Battles and sieges

1. c. 855 BCAhab defeats Ben-hadad at Aphek 1 Kgs 20:26–34
   Israel, like two little flocks of kids, against the Syrians who say the Lord is a god of the hills. A hundred thousand Syrians fall on the seventh day; a wall falls on the rest in Aphek, and Ben-hadad surrenders.

Verses (3)

1 Kgs 20:26

And 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 Kgs 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 Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

2 Kgs 13:17

And 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.

King James Version