It happened at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Afek, to fight against Yisra'el.
Joshua 13:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) on the south; all the land of the Kena`anim, and Me`arah that belongs to the Tzidonim, to Afek, to the border of the Amori; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 from the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites, American Standard Version (1901) on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongeth to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; Common English Bible in the south. The whole land of the Canaanites, along with Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek and as far as the Amorite border. Catholic Public Domain Version truly, to the south are the Hivites, all the land of Canaan, and Mearah of the Sidonians, as far as Aphek and the borders of the Amorite Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite, |
It happened at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Afek, to fight against Yisra'el.
But the rest fled to Afek, into the city; and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who were left. Ben-Hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
and say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Yerushalayim: Your birth and your birth is of the land of the Kena`ani; the Amori was your father, and your mother was a Chittite.
Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amori.
So Yehoshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, commanded.
to the Kena`ani on the east and on the west, and the Amori, and the Chittite, and the Perizzi, and the Yevusi in the hill country, and the Chivvi under Chermon in the land of Mitzpah.
`Ummah also, and Afek, and Rechov: twenty-two cities with their villages.
The word of Shemu'el came to all Yisra'el. Now Yisra'el went out against the Pelishtim to battle, and encamped beside Even-Ha`ezer: and the Pelishtim encamped in Afek.