Aphek
City · today: http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/lebanon/map/m1170262/hamul.html
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.
Named in 2 verses
- Joshua 13:4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
- Joshua 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.