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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Arkite (People, perhaps from Arak)
Descendants of Canaan who lived at Arka, about twelve miles northeast of Tripoli in modern Lebanon. The site is Tell Arqa, and it appears as Irqata in the Amarna letters.
Descendants of Canaan who lived at Arka, about twelve miles northeast of Tripoli in modern Lebanon. The site is Tell Arqa, and it appears as Irqata in the Amarna letters.
Arkites descended from Canaan and inhabited Arka, a city about twelve miles northeast of Tripoli in modern Lebanon, opposite the northern end of the Lebanon range. The site, known today as Tell Arqa, has been excavated and appears as Irqata in the Amarna letters and in earlier Egyptian execration texts, confirming it as a real Bronze Age city.
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- Genesis 10:17
- 1 Chronicles 1:15
