Abel-beth-maachah definition

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  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 (2 Sam. 20:19). It was besieged by Joab (2 Sam.


     20:14), by Benhadad (1 Kings 15:20), and by Tiglath-pileser (2
     Kings 15:29) about B.C. 734. It is elsewhere called Abel-maim,
     meadow of the waters, (2 Chr. 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.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Abel-beth-maachah, mourning to the house of Maachah
  

















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