Abel-Carmaim

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Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]

("plain of the vineyards"):  Judges 11:33 margin. An Ammonite village, six miles from Rabbath Ammon, or Philadelphia; the limit of Jephthah's pursuit of the Ammonites. Ruins named Abila still are found in this region. De Sauley met with a Beit El Kerm , "house of the vine," N. of Kerak, possibly identical with Abel-Ceramim.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [2]

A´bel-Carma´im (Place of the vineyards), a village of the Ammonites, about six miles from Philadelphia, or Rabbath Ammon, according to Eusebius, in whose time the place was still rich in vineyards ( Judges 11:33).

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