1)

Where is Afekah?

1.

Radak: This is Afekah in Yehudah (Yehoshua 15:53). It is not the Afekah in Asher (ibid., 19:30), which was under Achav's jurisdiction 1 . There was a big plain in front of the city. They called to Yisrael to come to fight them, and they came.

2.

Ralbag: Aram had taken Afekah from Yisrael; Ben Hadad and his soldiers fled to there (verse 30).


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Radak (30), Abarvenel: Melech Yehudah was b'Shalom with Melech Aram, therefore they camped there. (This helps explain why the Navi does not record any dialogue between Melech Yehudah and Ben Hadad. - PF)

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