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Afek

Beskrywing

'n Stad in die lot van Aser [Jos 13:4 ]. Die inwoners is nie deur Aser verdryf nie, en daar word nie gesê dat hulle skattingpligtig geword het nie [Rig 1:31 ]. In hierdie gedeelte word dit geskryf as 'afhiq (Hebreeus). Dit mag voorgestel word deur 'Afqa op Nahr Ibrahim, alhoewel dit waarskynlik verder noord is as wat ons sou verwag.

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Aphik

(Judg 1:31); Aphek (Josh 13:4; 19:30), stronghold.

(1.) A city of the tribe of Asher. It was the scene of the licentious worship of the Syrian Aphrodite. The ruins of the temple, "magnificent ruins" in a "spot of strange wildness and beauty", are still seen at Afka, on the north-west slopes of Lebanon, near the source of the river Adonis (now Nahr Ibrahim), 12 miles east of Gebal.

(2.) A city of the tribe of Issachar, near to Jezreel (1Sam 4:1 ; 29:1); comp. (1Sam 28:4 ).

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

EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary