Bible Location
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Abel-beth-maacah was the fortified northern city near Dan and Ijon that endured repeated sieges. It is important because it was both a strategically important stronghold and the place where a wise woman ended Sheba's revolt. First appears in 1 Kgs 15:20.1
Coordinates
33.27, 35.58
First appears
1 Kgs 15:20
AI summary: Abel-beth-maacah is one of the Bible's most vivid northern cities. It stands out first in the story of Joab's siege and the wise woman who saves the city, and later in the wars that exposed the far north to Aramean and Assyrian pressure. The cross references present Abel-beth-maacah as a northern stronghold of wisdom, survival, and repeated conflict.1
Latitude
33.27
Longitude
35.58
Bible references
2
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. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.