2 Chronicles 16:4
And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
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Barnes' Notes
Abel-maim - or, “Abel-beth-maachah” 1Ki 15:20. It was one of the towns most exposed to attack when an invader entered Israel from the north, and was taken from Pekah by Tiglath-pileser 2Ki 15:29.…
How to reconcile the date of this event with the history of the kings I am quite at a loss. Baasha died in the twenty-sixth year of Asa, Kg1 16:8. How then could this be done in his thirty-sixth year,…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
and they smote The places smitten were all in the extreme north of Israel.
Ijon The city cannot be identified, but the name is preserved in Merj -Iyûn, a table-land north of the Jordan valley.…
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