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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Abel-maim (Abel-beth-maacah)
Another name for Abel-beth-maachah, meaning Abel on the waters, used in the account of Asa hiring Ben-hadad to hit Israel's northern towns. Tiglath-pileser's own annals record his campaign against the place a century or so later.
Another name for Abel-beth-maachah, meaning Abel on the waters, used in the account of Asa hiring Ben-hadad to hit Israel's northern towns. Tiglath-pileser's own annals record his campaign against the place a century or so later.
An alternate name, "Abel on the waters," for the northern Israelite town of Abel-beth-maachah, used in the account of King Asa of Judah hiring Ben-hadad of Syria to attack Israel's northern towns (2 Chronicles 16:4). The same city was captured more than a century later by the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, an episode corroborated by Tiglath-pileser's own annals recording his campaign against the towns of Galilee and the north.
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- 2 Chronicles 16:4
