Dict: easton - Abel-beth-maachah

easton:

Abel-beth-maachah @ meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of Naphtali. It was a place of considerable strength and importance. It is called a "mother in Israel", i.e., a metropolis ( kjv@2Samuel:20:19). It was besieged by Joab ( kjv@2Samuel:20:14), by Benhadad (kjvKings:15:20), and by Tiglath-pileser ( kjv@2Kings:15:29) about B.C. 734. It is elsewhere called Abel-maim, meadow of the waters, ( kjv@2Chronicals:16:4). Its site is occupied by the modern Abil or Abil-el-kamh, on a rising ground to the east of the brook Derdarah, which flows through the plain of Huleh into the Jordan, about 6 miles to the west-north-west of Dan.