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Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Joshua 12:18

Aphek: Joshua 19:30, 1 Samuel 4:1 Lasharon: or, Sharon, Isaiah 33:9 read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 12:7-24

LIST OF THE KINGS SUBDUED BY JOSHUA, Joshua 12:7-24. [This list is acknowledged by the most rationalistic critics to be a very ancient document. Ewald speaks of it as “a record of remarkable interest in many ways. Its distinctive antiquity would be sufficiently evident from its enumeration of cities which in those early days were great and powerful, but which afterwards sank into absolute insignificance, or were never heard of again.” It was not improbably composed by Joshua himself. A number... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 12:18

18. Aphek This can hardly be the Aphek of the tribe of Asher (Joshua 19:30) which is mentioned in Joshua 13:4, but it was probably identical with the Aphek not far from Jezreel, where the Philistines gathered their forces before the fearful battle of Gilboa. 1 Samuel 29:1. Its site has not been certainly identified. Lasharon is mentioned here only and is now unknown. Some think the first syllable is not an integral part of the name, but would read king of Sharon. But this is unlikely. read more

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