Kirjathaim
Kirjathaim - two cities; a double city.
Kirjathaim may refer to:
- A city of refuge in Naphtali (1 Chronicles 6:76).
- A town on the east of Jordan (Genesis 14:5; Deuteronomy 2:9-10). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben (Numbers 32:37). In the time of (Ezekiel 25:9) it was one of the four cities which formed the "glory of Moab" (Compare Jeremiah 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.
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