Category:Arphad

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Arphad - Support, a Syrian city near Hamath, along with which it is invariably mentioned (2 Kings 19:13; 2 Kings 18:34; Isaiah 10:9), and Damascus (Jeremiah 49:23). After a siege of three years it fell (742 B.C.) before the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser II. Now Tell Erfud. Also known as Arpad.