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- ↑ 2 Kings 13:17: Douai Rheims translation
- ↑ "The Golan Heights: A Battlefield of the Ages", Los Angeles Times, 11 September 1988
- ↑ Hasegawa, Shuichi (2012). "Tel Soreg". Aram and Israel during the Jehuite Dynasty. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (434). Walter de Gruyter. p. 72. ISBN 3110283484 . Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ↑ Avraham Negev, Shimon Gibson (2001). Aphek (c). New York: Continuum. p. 39. ISBN 0-8264-1316-1.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ Hasegawa (2012), pp. 71-72.
- ↑ The account in 1 Samuel 4:1 of the battle at Aphek and Eben-ezer
- ↑ North, Robert (1960). "Ap(h)eq(a) and 'Azeqa". Biblica. 41 (1): 61–63. JSTOR 42637769.
- ↑ Eusebius Werke, Erich Klostermann (ed.), Leipig 1904, p. 33,24.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Aphek". The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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