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[[Text:EBD:Meadow (EBD)|Meadow]] of the [[Text:EBD:House (EBD)|house]] of [[Text:EBD:Maachah (EBD)|Maachah]], a [[Text:EBD:City (EBD)|city]] in the north of [[Text:EBD:Palestine (EBD)|Palestine]], in the neighbourhood of [[Text:EBD:Dan (EBD)|Dan]] and [[Text:EBD:Ijon (EBD)|Ijon]], in the [[Text:EBD:Tribe (EBD)|tribe]] of [[Text:EBD:Naphtali (EBD)|Naphtali]]. It was a place of considerable strength and importance. It is called a "mother in [[Text:EBD:Israel (EBD)|Israel]]", i.e., a metropolis (2 Sam. 20:19). It was besieged by [[Text:EBD:Joab (EBD)|Joab]] (2 Sam. 20:14), by [[Text:EBD:Ben-hadad (EBD)|Benhadad]] (1 Kings 15:20), and by [[Text:EBD:Tiglath-Pileser III. (EBD)|Tiglath-pileser]] (2 Kings 15:29) about B.C. 734. It is elsewhere called Abel-maim, meadow of the waters, (2 Chr. 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 [[Text:EBD:Plain (EBD)|plain]] of Huleh into the [[Text:EBD:Jordan (EBD)|Jordon]], about 6 miles to the west-north-west of [[Text:EBD:Dan (EBD)|Dan]].