Bible Location
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Kiriathaim was a town east of the Jordan in the plateau region later contested between Israel and Moab. It is important because it appears in Reuben's inheritance and later in prophetic descriptions of Moab's collapse. First appears in Num 32:37.1
AI summary: Kiriathaim sits within the long-contested transjordanian landscape where possession shifted over time. In the early territorial texts it belongs to the Reubenite pattern of settlement, but the prophets later speak of it as one of the proud cities of Moab. That movement from Israelite allotment to Moabite association reflects the instability of the eastern plateau. The cross references present Kiriathaim as a borderland town whose significance lies in contested identity and prophetic judgment.1
A town on the east of Jordan (Gen. 14:5; Deut. 2:9, 10). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben (Num. 32:37). In the time of Ezekiel (25:9) it was one of the four cities which formed the “glory of Moab” (comp. Jer. 48:1, 23). It has been identified with el-Kureiyat, 11 miles south-west of Medeba, on the south slope of Jebel Attarus, the ancient Ataroth. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.