* Abel.
Or rather, probably, Abel of Beth-Maachah, as in the next
verse. It appears, from Joab having marched "through all the
tribes of Israel," to have been situated in the northern
confines of the land of Israel, and in the half tribe of
Manasseh, east of Jordan, as that was the situation of
Maachah, to which it belonged. This agrees with the situation
of the Abela which Eusebius and Jerome place between Paneas,
or C(9173)area Philippi, and Damascus. Josephus says it was a
fortified city, and a metropolis of the Israelites; and also
that it belonged to the ten tribes, having been taken from the
king of Damascus.
1Ki 15:20 2Ki 15:29 2Ch 16:4
* Berites.
Jos 18:25
* Beeroth.
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