ABELBETHMAACHAH
Meadow of the house of Maachah; a town in the tribe of Naphtali, north of lake Merom. It was besieged in the rebellion of Sheba, 2 Samuel 1:20-22; eighty years afterwards it was taken by Ben- hadad, 1 Kings 15:20, and again, after 200 years, by Tiglathpileser, 2 Kings 15:29. It is called Abelmaim in 2 Chronicles 1:16. Compare 1 Kings 15:20. Also simply Abel, 2 Samuel 20:18.