Kirjathaim @ two cities; a double city. (1.) A city of refuge in Naphtali ( 1Chronicles:6:76). (2.) 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" (comp. 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.
