Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 18:23
And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
23. 7. Avim ] Some have regarded this as identical with Ai, which is also called Aija (Neh 11:31) and Aiath (Isa 10:28). 8. Parah is unknown. 9. Ophrah appears to be mentioned again in 1Sa 13:17 in describing the spoilers who issued from the Philistine camp at Michmash. Robinson would identify it with El-Taiyibeh, a small village 4 miles E.N.E. of Beitin (Bethel). This was not the Ophrah of Gideon (Jdg 6:11; Jdg 6:15).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And Avim, and Parah,…. Of the two first of these we read nowhere else;
and Ophrah is not the same with Ophrah in Jud 6:11; that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, 1Sa 13:17. Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says o, in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this.
o De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
23. Avim This is supposed by Knobel and others to stand for Ai, the city near Beth-el which was among the first destroyed by Joshua. See Jos 7:2, note.
Parah “Jerome states that this village still existed in his time, and was situated five miles east of Beth-el. It seems highly probable that we have this old name retained in the wild glen called Wady Farah, which runs down the eastern declivities of Benjamin. It falls into the Wady Suweinit, and in the fork there are the ruins of an ancient village called Farah.” Porter. Ophrah is identified by Robinson with Taiyi-beh, a village five miles northeast of Beth-el, occupying a commanding site, and containing ancient ruins.]
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Ophrah: Situated, according to Eusebius, five miles east of Bethel. 1Sa 13:17
Reciprocal: Jdg 6:11 – an angel Mic 1:10 – Aphrah