ABEL, a city in Maacah, one of the genuinely "Israelite" cities (see 2 Sam. xx. 18). The question of the Aramaean and Edomite composition of Israel involves a consideration of the territories occupied in early times by the tribes and their progenitor (Deut. xxvi. 5). Abel and Dan were considered as definitely Israelite cities (see The Cambridge Ancient History, 1926, vol. ii., pp. 368-69).