([Isa. 10:9](/isa#Isa.10.9); [36:19](/isa#Isa.36.19); [37:13](/isa#Isa.37.13)), also Arphad, support, a Syrian city near Hamath, along with which it is invariably mentioned ([2 Kings 19:13](/2kgs#2Kgs.19.13); [18:34](/2kgs#2Kgs.18.34); [Isa. 10:9](/isa#Isa.10.9)), and Damascus ([Jer. 49:23](/jer#Jer.49.23)). After a siege of three years it fell (B.C. 742) before the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser II. Now Tell Erfud.