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    that appear to support the idea first proposed by Avraham Biran that Abel-beth-maachah was an Israelite town during the reigns of David and Solomon. Bronze...
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    of Abel is an unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible. She appears in 2 Samuel 20, when Joab pursues the rebel Sheba to the city of Abel-beth-maachah. The...
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  • Maacah (redirect from Maachah)
    their war against David (2 Samuel 10:6). It is probable that the city Abel-beth-maachah in Naphtali (2 Samuel 10:15) derived its name from its relation to...
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  • the Moon Abel (אבל), meaning "stream" in Hebrew, the name of several biblical sites in modern-day Israel Abel-beth-maachah, in Galilee Abel-meholah, in...
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  • through border fortifications. Ben-Hadad took the towns of "Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maachah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali" (1 Kings 15:20)...
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  • Abel, breath, vapor, transitoriness; breath, or vanity Abel-beth-maachah, meadow of the house of Maachah, "also called ABEL-MAIM" Abel-cheramim Abel-maim...
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    depopulated in 1948. It was located at the site of the biblical city of Abel-beth-maachah. According to historian Walid Khalidi, the village's Arabic name derives...
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    Abel-beth-maachah, where they knew Sheba to be hiding. They besieged the city. An unnamed wise woman from the city convinced Joab not to destroy Abel...
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    part of a system of settlements around the Hula Valley, including Abel Beth Maachah, Dan and Kedesh. The settlement was exposed in limited areas where...
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  • Mullins, Robert A.; Yahalom-Mack, Naama (2020). "Faunal remains from Tel Abel Beth Maacah: Social change in the late second millennium BCE Hula Valley"....
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