Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Kings 15:20

"And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali." — 1 Kings 15:20 (ASV)

Smote. —The portion struck now, as also later in the Assyrian invasion (2 Kings 15:29), is the mountain country near the source of the Jordan, which was most exposed to the main approach to Israel from the north by “the entering in of Hamath,” through the wide valley between Lebanon and Ante-Lebanon, called by the Greeks Cœle-Syria.

Ijon is only mentioned in these two passages as belonging to the territory of Naphtali. It is thought to have stood not far from Dan, close to the nearer, but fuller, source of the Jordan, in a position of great natural beauty and some strength, identified with the modern Tel-Dibbin.

Abel-beth-Maachah (see 2 Samuel 20:14–15) (“the meadow of the house of Maachah”), or (2 Chronicles 16:4) Abel-maim (“the meadow upon the waters”), probably lay in the marshy ground north of the water of Merom.

Cinneroth or Chinneroth, is the name later corrupted into Gennesareth, evidently signifying a region near the lake.