Abel the Great
1Sa 6:18. Keil supposes the reading ought to be “Eben” (the stone), for “Abel.” The Septuagint and the Chaldee versions so read; but “Abel” is probably right, and refers to the mourning caused by the destruction of so many Bethshemites for looking into the ark. The field in which Abel the great Stone was, on which the ark was placed on its return from the Philistines, belonged to Joshua, a Bethshemite.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Abel, the Great
The A.V. has “the Great [stone of] Abel.” 1Sa 6:18. Delitzsch believes that this is not a proper name and that Abel is a mistake for eben, ‘a stone,’ the final n being put instead of l : and if so it would be simply “the great stone,” which is also mentioned in verses 14 and 15. This is the rendering adopted by the LXX and the Targum.