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Places of the Bible

Aphek

A town on the road from Damascus to Palestine · City

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Aphek, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

  • Prophecies of Elisha · 896 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

A town on the road from Damascus to Palestine, in the level plain east of Jordan, near which Benhadad was defeated by the Israelites (1 Kings 20:26, 30; 2 Kings 13:17). It has been identified with the modern Fik, 6 miles east of the Sea of Galilee, opposite Tiberias.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

1 Kings
20:26, 20:30
2 Kings
13:17

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.