Place
Abel-beth-maacah
Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.
A town in the far north of Israel. Joab besieged the rebel Sheba here until a wise woman of the town persuaded its people to hand him over.
Who passed through
In story order. King James Version.
- Joab, 2 Samuel 20:15
And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maachah, 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.
Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).