Dictionaries :: Abel-Beth-Maachah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Abel-Beth-Maachah:

meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of Naphtali. It was a place of considerable strength and importance. It is called a "mother in Israel", i.e., a metropolis (2Sa 20:19). It was besieged by Joab (2Sa 20:14), by Benhadad (1Ki 15:20), and by Tiglath-pileser (2Ki 15:29) about B.C. 734. It is elsewhere called Abel-maim, meadow of the waters, (2Ch 16:4). Its site is occupied by the modern Abil or Abil-el-kamh, on a rising ground to the east of the brook Derdarah, which flows through the plain of Huleh into the Jordan, about 6 miles to the west-north-west of Dan.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Abel-Beth-Maachah:

mourning to the house of Maachah

Nave's Topical Bible

Abel-Beth-Maachah: Abel-Beth-Maachah

Called also Abel-Maim. A city in the N. of Palestine.

Abel-Beth-Maachah: Sheba Slain In

2Sa 20:14-22

Abel-Beth-Maachah: Taken by Benhadad

1Ki 15:20; 2Ch 16:4

Abel-Beth-Maachah: Taken by Tiglath

2Ki 15:29