Abel Meholah

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• 1KI 4:7–19, engwebp

  ⁷Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided food for the king and his household. Each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

  ⁸These are their names: Ben Hur, in the hill country of Ephraim;

  ⁹Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;

  ¹⁰Ben Hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh and all the land of Hepher belonged to him);

  ¹¹Ben Abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath, Solomon’s daughter, as wife);

  ¹²Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth Shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

  ¹³Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);

  ¹⁴Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

  ¹⁵Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

  ¹⁶Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

  ¹⁷Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

  ¹⁸Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

  ¹⁹Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land.

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• 1KI 19:15–18, engwebp

  ¹⁵The LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

  ¹⁶Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.

  ¹⁷He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

  ¹⁸Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”

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• JDG 7:16–22, engwebp

  ¹⁶He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

  ¹⁷He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.

  ¹⁸When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”

  ¹⁹So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

  ²⁰The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”

  ²¹They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.

  ²²They blew the three hundred trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

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