Kirjath-huzoth
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Kirjath-huzoth or Qiryath Chutsoth, meaning city of streets or (in the Septuagint), city of villages, Numbers 22:39, was a Moabite city which some identify with Kirjathaim in eastern Jordan.[1]
According to a story recorded in Numbers 22-24, Balak, King of Moab, received and entertained the soothsayer Balaam here, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the "mountains of the east," beyond the Euphrates, to lay a curse upon the Israelites, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting. Balak offered a sacrifice of oxen and sheep there.[2] It was probably from the summit of Attarus, the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of Israel.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
References
- ^ Bible Atlas http://bibleatlas.org/kiriath-huzoth.htm accessed 23 June 2015
- ^ Numbers 22:40
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