Abel-beth-maachah
   meadow of the house of Maachah, a city in the north of
   Palestine, in the neighbourhood of Dan and Ijon, in the tribe of
   Naphtali. It was a place of considerable strength and
   importance. It is called a "mother in Israel", i.e., a
   metropolis (2 Sam. 20:19). It was besieged by Joab (2 Sam.
   20:14), by Benhadad (1 Kings 15:20), and by Tiglath-pileser (2
   Kings 15:29) about B.C. 734. It is elsewhere called Abel-maim,
   meadow of the waters, (2 Chr. 16:4). Its site is occupied by the
   modern Abil or Abil-el-kamh, on a rising ground to the east of
   the brook Derdarah, which flows through the plain of Huleh into
   the Jordan, about 6 miles to the west-north-west of Dan.
   

Abel-beth-maachah, mourning to the house of Maachah