| | | | =ABEL |2 Sam. xx. |_Abl_ | 6 |Now a village, 6½ miles BETH-MAACHAH=, | 14, 15, 18; | | | west of Banias, in (R.V. =ABEL | 1 Kings xv. | | | Naphtali; also called BETH-MAACAH=) | 20; 2 Kings | | | Abel-maim. (_Mem._ I. | xv. 29 | | | 85 & 107; Sh. II.) | | | | =ABEL-CERAMIM=, |Judg. xi. 33 |_Not |-- |A place east of Jordan, (R.V. =ABEL- | | identified_ | | beyond ‘Aroer.’ CHERAMIM=) | | | | | | | | =ABEL-MAIM= |2 Chron. xvi. |_Abl_ |-- |Apparently identical | 4 | | | with Abel | | | | Beth-maachah. (Compare | | | | with 1 Kings xv. 20.) | | | | =ABEL-MEHOLAH= |Judges vii. |_ʾAin Helweh_*|10 |Jerome places it | 22; 1 Sam. | | | 10 miles south of | xviii. 19; 2 | | | Scythopolis, or at | Sam. xxi. 8; | | | the present ‘ʾAin | 1 Kings iv. | | | Helweh,’ 9½ miles | 12; xix. 16 | | | south of Beth-shean. | | | | (_Mem._ II. 231; Sh. | | | | XII.)--Conder. | | | | =ABEL-MIZRAIM= |Gen. l. 11 |_Not |-- |The threshing-floor of | | identified_ | | Atad. ‘Beyond Jordan.’ | | | | Placed by Jerome at | | | | Beth Hoglah, on the | | | | west bank. | | | | =ABEL-SHITTIM= |Num. xxxiii. |_Kefrein_, |14 |Known in the days of | 49 | at northern | | Josephus as Abila; 60 | | margin of | | stadia from the river. | | Ghôr es | | The town and palms | | Seîsebân | | have disappeared; | | | | but an extensive | | | | acacia-grove and some | | | | ruins still remain on | | | | the plain now called | | | | Seîsebân. (Conder’s | | | | _Heth and Moab_, p. | | | | 148.) | | | | =ABEZ=, (R.V.