Aphek. — The name, signifying simply a “fortress,” as applied to several different places. There are two places which suit well enough with the Aphek of this passage and 2 Kings 13:17, as being a battlefield in the plain country between Israel and Syria. One is the Aphek of 1 Samuel 29:1, evidently in the plain of Esdraelon; the other a place on the road to Damascus, about six miles east of the Sea of Galilee.
Verse 26. _BEN-HADAD NUMBERED THE SYRIANS, AND WENT UP TO APHEK_] There were several towns of this name; see the notes on Joshua 12:18. It is supposed that the town mentioned here was situated in Liba...
APHEK - There were several places of this name in Palestine (see the marginal reference). This Aphek has been almost certainly identified with the modern Fik, a large village on the present high road...
4. KING AHAB: HIS WICKED REIGN AND END CHAPTER 20 Ahab's War with the Syrians and His Victory _ 1. The siege and relief of Samaria (1 Kings 20:1)_ 2. The victory at Aphek (1 Kings 20:22) 3. A prop...
AHAB'S VICTORY OVER BEN-HADAD. Chs. 20 and 22 come from another source. Elijah does not appear, the religious interest is less prominent, and Ahab is presented in a far less hostile light. He acts as...
APHEK. Probably east of the Sea of Galilee....
_numbered_ R.V. MUSTERED, and so in the next verse. See above on 1 Kings 20:15. _up to Aphek_ There were several places of this name. One was at the foot of Lebanon, in the tribe of Asher (see Joshua...
B. THE BATTLE OF APHEK 20:23-43 It was not long before the intelligence reports reaching Ahab's military advisers confirmed the warnings of the man of God. Benhadad was massing new troops, reorganizin...
_AND THE SERVANTS OF THE KING OF SYRIA SAID UNTO HIM, THEIR GODS ARE GODS OF THE HILLS; THEREFORE THEY WERE STRONGER THAN WE; BUT LET US FIGHT AGAINST THEM IN THE PLAIN, AND SURELY WE SHALL BE STRONGE...
WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA The Syrians besiege Samaria, but a sally being made from the city by the direction of a prophet, they are driven off, and the next year are beaten at Aphek. Ahab, having...
APHEK] probably a city E. of the Sea of Galilee....
GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY 1 KINGS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 20 GOD ALLOWS AHAB’S ARMY TO DEFEAT THE ARMY FROM SYRIA V1 Benhadad, king of Syria gathered his whole army. Then 32 other kings with the...
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AHAB AND BENHADAD 1 Kings 20:1 IN the Septuagint and in Josephus the events narrated in the twentieth chapter of the Book of Kings are placed after the meeting of Elijah with Ahab at the door of Nabo...
THE GOD BOTH OF HILLS AND VALLEYS 1 Kings 20:16 What is God to us? Is He only the God of the hills? We expect religion to serve us when we come to the great summits of experience. There are times of...
A PROSPEROUS NATION 1 Kings 4:1; 1 Kings 20:1; 1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 22:1 What a picture is here given of national contentment and
Here begins the actual movement in the downfall of Ahab. Ben-hadad, drunken, profligate, despotic, came in the pride of arms against Samaria. By the voices of prophets Jehovah spoke to Ahab, who, acti...
Aphec, belonging to the tribe of Aser, though it does not appear that they ever obtained possession of it, Josue xix. 30. A subterraneous fire and earthquake have caused the city to sink; and a lake,...
(22) В¶ And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against t...
The days were very dark in Israel. Not only rebellion. And rebellion, always serious, was peculiarly so in Israel, for there it was insubordination in a direct manner against not only God's providence...
According to the outward history of Israel, that which follows the revelations made to Elijah in Horeb looks like a time of restoration and blessing; and outwardly it was so. Benhadad is overcome and...
AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THE RETURN OF THE YEAR,.... In the spring, or autumn, as some think, 2 Samuel 11:1 THAT BENHADAD NUMBERED THE SYRIANS; took a muster of his army, to see if he had got the numbe...
And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel. Ver. 26. _And went up to Aphek._] Which was, saith Lyra, a strong cit...
_Ben-hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek _ A city in the tribe of Asher; which, it is probable, was one of those that Ben-hadad's father had taken from the king of Israel, (1 Kings 20:34,...
1 Benhadad not content with Ahabs hommage, besiegeth Samaria. 13 By the direction of a Prophet, the Syrians are slaine. 22 As the Prophet forewarned Ahab, the Syrians trusting in the valleys, come a...
Benhadad's Second Defeat, Capture, and Release...
And it came to pass at the return of the year, as the prophet had foretold, THAT BENHADAD NUMBERED THE SYRIANS AND WENT UP TO APHEK, in the Plain of Jezreel, the great battlefield of Palestine, TO FIG...
AHAB DEFEATS SYRIA (vs.1-22) God's care for His people Israel is still remarkably displayed in this chapter in spite of the unholy character of Ahab. Ben Hadad, king of Syria, marshaled a tremendous...
TO FIGHT AGAINST ISRAEL: _ Heb._ to the war with Israel...
22-30 Those about Benhadad advised him to change his ground. They take it for granted that it was not Israel, but Israel's gods, that beat them; but they speak very ignorantly of Jehovah. They suppose...
Not that _Aphek_ in Judah, of which JOSHUA 13:4 JOSHUA 15:31; but that in Asher, of which JOSHUA 19:30 JUDGES 1:31, nigh unto which was the grea
1 Kings 20:26 spring H8666 year H8141 Ben-Hadad H1130 mustered H6485 (H8799) Syrians H758 up H5927 ...
YHWH THWARTS BENHADAD'S SECOND ATTEMPT ON ISRAEL (1 KINGS 20:22). It was not likely that Benhadad would take this reverse lightly. While his forces had fled in panic with the result that he had forfei...
WAR WITH BENHADAD KING OF ARAM (1 KINGS 20:1). There is no indication at what point in Ahab's reign these events occurred, but a situation is indicated where the power of the Aramaeans had now grown s...
CONTENTS: Ahab's Syrian campaigns and victories. His sin in sparing Ben-hadad. CHARACTERS: God, Ahab, Ben-hadad, two prophets. CONCLUSION: Enemies are more than a match for us, but no match for Jeho...
1 Kings 20:3. _Thy gold thy wives are mine._ The African princes still send similar messages to one another. Mungo Park mentions one who sent an order to a neighbouring prince to have the houses all m...
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 20:1 After Elijah’s recruitment of Elisha, one expects to read of his anointing of Hazael as king over Syria and of Jehu as king over Israel (compare 1 Kings 19:15). Instead
1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 20:26 APHEK. The second battle is considerably farther north than the first (see Joshua 19:30), which took place near Samaria ...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 20:22. AT THE RETURN OF THE YEAR—לִתְשׁוּבת השָׁנָה. with the beginning of the year—the spring—until which time the winter rains would prevent another campaig...
EXPOSITION THE INVASIONS OF ISRAEL BY THE SYRIANS AND THEIR RESULTS.—The insertion of this chapter, which contains an account of two invasions of Israel by the hosts of Syria, and of the utter defeat...
Now Benhadad who was presently the king of Syria gathered all of his host together: and there were thirty-two kings that went with him, with their horses, and chariots: and they came up and besieged S...
1 Kings 20:30; 1 Samuel 29:1; 1 Samuel 4:1; 2 Kings 13:17; Joshua 13:4