Abila (Peraea)
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This article is about Abila in Peraea. For the Abila in the Decapolis, see Abila (Decapolis). For Abil es-Suk in Syria, see Abila Lysaniou.
Abila (Arabic: ابيلا) was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains of Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea.[citation needed] The site is identified with modern Khirbet el-Kafrayn, Jordan and identified on the Madaba Map as an unnamed icon.[1][2][3] There is a widely supported theory that in the Hebrew Bible, it is referred to as Abel-Shittim, as well as in the shorter forms Shittim and Ha-Shittim.[4][5][6][7][8][9]