1 Kings 20:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ In the spring Ben-hadad mustered the Arameans and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ And at the return of the year, Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians and went up to Aphek to fight against Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

Common English Bible

²⁶ So in the spring of the year, Ben-hadad assembled the Arameans and marched up to Aphek to fight with Israel.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Therefore, after the passing of the year, Benhadad took a count of the Syrians, and he ascended to Aphek, so that he might fight against Israel.

1 Kings 20:26 Cross References

2 Kings 13:17

Then he said, “Open the window eastward,” and he opened it. Elisha said, “Shoot,” and he shot. Then he said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram! For you shall fight the Arameans in Aphek until you have made an end of them.”

1 Kings 20:22

Then the prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”

1 Kings 20:30

The rest fled into the city of Aphek, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben-hadad also fled and entered the city to hide.

1 Samuel 29:1

Now the Philistines gathered all their forces at Aphek, while the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.

1 Samuel 4:1

And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. In those days the Philistines mustered for war against Israel, and Israel went out to battle against them; they encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.

Judges 1:31

Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco or the inhabitants of Sidon, or of Mahalab, or of Achzib, or of Helbah, or of Aphik, or of Rehob,

Joshua 19:30

Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob—twenty-two towns with their villages.

Joshua 13:4

in the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,

2 Samuel 11:1

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him; they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.

1 Kings 20:25

and muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; then we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they.” He heeded their voice and did so.