Reference: Kiriathaim
Fausets
1. Nu 32:37; Jos 13:19. A town of Reuben. Belonged first to the Emim (Ge 14:5 Shaveh Kiriathaim. "the plain of Kiriathaim," or of the two cities) whom the Moabites dispossessed before the Exodus (De 2:10-11). Moab lost and recovered Kiriathaim when the trans-jordanic tribes were carried captive (Jer 48:1-23; Eze 25:9).
2. Kiriathaim of Naphtali, assigned to the Levitical Gershonites (1Ch 6:76).
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Therefore in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Giants in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
The Emims dwelt therein in times past; which were a great strong people, and high of stature as the Anakims. Which also were taken for Giants, like as the Anakims: And the Moabites called them Emims.
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kadesh in Galilee with her suburbs, Hammon with her suburbs, and Kiriathjearim with her suburbs.
Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel against Moab, "Woe be to the city of Nebo, for it shall be laid waste, brought to confusion and taken. Yea the strong city of Kiriathaim shall be brought to shame, and afraid. Moab can boast no more of Heshbon, for they have devised against it. 'Come,' shall they say, 'let us root them out, that they may be no more among the number of the Gentiles; yea, that they may no more be thought upon.' Thus the sword shall persecute thee: read more. A voice shall cry from Horonaim, 'With great wasting and destruction is Moab made desolate!' And this cry shall be heard in all her cities. At the going up unto Luhith there shall arise a lamentation: and down toward Horonaim, there shall be heard a cruel and deadly cry. 'Get you away, save your lives and be like unto the heath in the wilderness!' For because thou hast trusted in thy strongholds and treasure, thou shalt be taken. Chemosh with his priests and princes shall go away into captivity. The destroyer shall come upon all cities, none shall escape. The valleys shall be destroyed, and the fields shall be laid waste: like as the LORD hath determined. Make a token unto Moab, that she get her away speedily: for her cities shall be made so desolate, that no man shall dwell therein. Cursed be he that doth the work of the LORD negligently; and cured be he that keepeth back his sword from shedding of blood. Moab hath ever been rich and careless from her youth up, she hath sitten and taken her ease with her treasure. She was never yet put out of one vessel into another, that is, she never went away into captivity, therefore her taste remaineth, and her savour is not yet changed. But lo, the time cometh, sayeth the LORD, that I shall send her trussers to truss her up, to prepare and season her vessels: yea her tankards rattle and shake to and fro. And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, like as Israel was ashamed of Bethel, wherein she put her trust. "Wherefore do ye think thus, 'We are mighty, and strong men of war'? Moab shall be destroyed, her cities burnt up: her chosen young men shall be slain, sayeth the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts. The destruction of Moab cometh on a pace, and her fall is at hand. All her neighbours shall mourn for her, and all they that know her name, shall say, 'O how happeneth it, that the strong staff and the goodly rod is thus broken?' And thou, daughter Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in poverty. For he that destroyeth Moab, shall come up to thee also, and break down thy strongholds. And thou that dwellest in Aroer, get thee to the street, and look about thee: ask them that are fled and escaped, and say, 'What thing is happened?' O Moab is confounded and overcome. Mourn and cry, tell it out at Arnon, that Moab is destroyed. And misery shall come upon the plain land: Namely, upon Holon, and Jahzah, upon Mephaath and Dibon, upon Nebo, and the house of Diblathaim, upon Kiriathaim and Bethgamul, upon Bethmeon,
Hastings
1. A town E. of the Jordan, in the disputed territory between Moab and Reuben, placed by the Onomasticon 10 Roman miles W. of Madeba (Ge 14:5; Nu 32:37; Jos 13:19; Jer 48:23; Eze 25:9); unidentified. 2. A town in Naphtali (1Ch 6:76), called Kartan in Jos 21:32.
W. Ewing.
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Therefore in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, and smote the Giants in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, the city of refuge for the slayer, Kadesh in Galilee, with her suburbs; Hammothdor, with her suburbs; Kartan with her suburbs: Three cities.
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kadesh in Galilee with her suburbs, Hammon with her suburbs, and Kiriathjearim with her suburbs.
Morish
Kiriatha'im
See KIRJATHAIM.
Smith
Kiriatha'im.
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