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Arpad

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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A city of northern Syria, the modern Tell-Erfad, thirteen miles northwest of Aleppo. Itis mentioned in 2 Kings 18:34, 19:13; Isaiah 10:9, 36:19, 37:13; Jeremiah 49:23. Rammannirari III. fought against it (Schrader, "Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek," 1:209), and Tiglath-pileser III. besieged it for two years and captured it about 740 B.C. (ib. 1:213, and Isaiah 10:9).

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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Arpad'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​a/arpad.html. 1901.
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