abel-meholah Summary and Overview

meadow of dancing, or the dancing-meadow, the birthplace and residence of the prophet Elisha, not far from Beth-shean (1 Kings 4:12), in the tribe of Issachar, near where the Wady el-Maleh emerges into the valley of the Jordan, "the rich meadow-land which extends about 4 miles south of Beth-shean; moist and luxuriant." Here Elisha was found at his plough by Elijah on his return up the Jordan valley from Horeb (1 Kings 19:16). It is now called 'Ain Helweh.

(meadow of the dance), in the northern pat of the Jordan valley, #1Ki 4:12| to which the routed Bedouin host fled from Gideon, #Jud 7:22| Here Elisha was found at his plough by Elijah returning up the valley from Horeb. #1Ki 19:16-19|

("the plain of the dance".) The birthplace of Elisha, where he was found at his plow by Elijah returning up the Jordan valley from Horeb (1 Kings 19:16). N. of the Jordan valley, S. of Bethshean (Scythopolis) (1 Kings 4:12). To its neighborhood fled the Midianites routed by Gideon (Judges 7:22). It pertained to the half tribe of Manasseh.