Far northern Israel · Old Testament · 13 verses
Abel, more fully Abel-beth-maachah, was a fortified town in the far north of Israel. It was known as a place of counsel and wisdom. The name appears in Genesis, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel and 3 more in the King James text.
About Abel
Abel, more fully Abel-beth-maachah, was a fortified town in the far north of Israel. It was known as a place of counsel and wisdom.
Its place in the story
When Sheba rebelled against David and fled to Abel, a wise woman of the city persuaded its people to end the revolt, and the city was spared. Abel was later attacked in the wars with Aram and Assyria.
Abel in Scripture (KJV)
“And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.”
“And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.”
“And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.”
“And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.”
“And they came and besieged him in Abel of Bethmaachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.”
Abel, more fully Abel-beth-maachah, was a fortified town in the far north of Israel. It was known as a place of counsel and wisdom. The name appears in Genesis, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel and 3 more in the King James text.
What happened at Abel?
When Sheba rebelled against David and fled to Abel, a wise woman of the city persuaded its people to end the revolt, and the city was spared. Abel was later attacked in the wars with Aram and Assyria.