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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Abel-meholah
A town in the Jordan Valley on the road the Midianites took when they ran from Gideon. It is also where Elisha came from: Elijah found him there behind a plough.
A town in the Jordan Valley on the road the Midianites took when they ran from Gideon. It is also where Elisha came from: Elijah found him there behind a plough.
Abel-meholah was a town in the Jordan Valley, near Issachar's territory, along the route the defeated Midianites fled after Gideon's night attack (Judges 7:22). It was the birthplace and home of the prophet Elisha, whom Elijah found there plowing with oxen before calling him into his service (1 Kings 19:16, 19). It lay near where the Wadi el-Maleh opens into the Jordan Valley, south of Beth-shean.
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- Judges 7:22
- 1 Kings 4:12
- 1 Kings 19:16
