While Tel-Aphek (Antipatris) is one of them, C.R. Conder identified the Aphek of Eben-Ezer The account in 1 Samuel 4:1 of the battle at Aphek and Eben-ezer with a ruin (Khirbet) some 6 kilometers distant from Dayr Aban (believed to be Eben-Ezer C.R. Conder, Notes from the Memoir, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, vol.