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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Abel-beth-maachah (Abel-beth-maacah)
A fortified city in the far north near Dan. Its own people called it a mother in Israel, which is how you said a town led the region. Joab besieged it to get at the rebel Sheba, and it was taken later by Ben-hadad when Asa paid him to attack, then by Tiglath-pileser.
A fortified city in the far north near Dan. Its own people called it a mother in Israel, which is how you said a town led the region. Joab besieged it to get at the rebel Sheba, and it was taken later by Ben-hadad when Asa paid him to attack, then by Tiglath-pileser.
Abel-beth-maachah was a fortified city in the far north of Israel, near Dan, called a mother in Israel, a way of naming it a leading city of the region (2 Samuel 20:19). Joab besieged it there to root out the rebel Sheba (2 Samuel 20:14-15), and it was later captured first by the Aramean king Ben-hadad at Asa's instigation (1 Kings 15:20) and then by Assyria's Tiglath-pileser III (2 Kings 15:29). Tiglath-pileser's own summary inscriptions list the conquest of this same region's towns, including Abel-beth-maacah, independently corroborating the biblical account.
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- 2 Samuel 20:15
- 1 Kings 15:20
- 2 Kings 15:29
