A place in the Jordan valley, the limit of Gideon's pursuit of the Midianites (Jg 7:22); in the administrative district of Taanach and Megiddo under Solomon (1Ki 4:12); the native place of Adriel, husband of Merab, Saul's daughter (1Sa 18:19), and of Elisha (1Ki 19:16). The suggested identifications are uncertain. See Moore's Judges, p. 212.
R. A. S. Macalister.
When they blew 300 trumpets, the LORD set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;
and Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint king over Israel; and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint as prophet in your place.