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Abel Beth Maacah was a border town, and as such, was exposed to these influences at the same time that it fulfilled the role of buffering, or bearing the brunt of, foreign invasions. Its proximity to numerous water sources and a rich agricultural hinterland was yet another factor in making Abel Beth Maacah a large and prominent site in antiquity.
The wise woman of Abel is an unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible. [1] She appears in 2 Samuel 20, when Joab pursues the rebel Sheba to the city of Abel-beth-maachah . The woman, who lives in Abel, institutes a parley with Joab, who promises to leave the city if Sheba is handed over to him.
Maacah (or Maakah; Hebrew: מַעֲכָה Maʿăḵā, "crushed"; Maacha in the Codex Alexandrinus, Maachah in the KJV) is a non-gender-specific personal name used in the Bible to refer to a number of people. A child of Abraham's brother Nachor, evidently a boy. (Genesis 22:23,24) The wife of Machir, Manasseh's son. (1 Chronicles 7:15-16)
During the siege a 'wise woman' spoke to Joab from the rampart, offering a plan to save Abel-beth-maachah, a city which had a reputation for wisdom (verse 18) and considered a 'mother city' in Israel (verse 19), by beheading Sheba and throwing his severed head to Joab. With this, the rebellion ended, all people went home to their own cities as ...
The two mounds belonging to the archaeological site known as Tell Abil el-Qameḥ in Arabic and Tel Abel Beth Maacah in Hebrew have been surveyed in 2012 and have since been excavated in annual campaigns (four as of 2016). [21]
Joab took the opportunity to kill Amasa. Then Joab and Abishai arrived at the city of Abel-beth-maachah, where they knew Sheba to be hiding. They besieged the city. An unnamed wise woman from the city convinced Joab not to destroy Abel Beth-Maacah, because the people did not want Sheba hiding there. She told the people of the city to kill Sheba ...
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The prophet was probably referring to the road from Dan to the sea at Tyre, passing through Abel-beth-maachah, [5] which marked the northern border of Israel at the time of the Assyrian conquest. This Egypt-to-Damascus route is designated by Barry J. Beitzel as the Great Trunk Road in The New Moody Atlas of the Bible (2009), p. 85.