Kerioth

Kerioth ("cities") appears in major prophetic oracles against Moab (Jeremiah 48:24, 48:41, Amos 2:2): "I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth." Mesha king of Moab named Kerioth on the Moabite Stone, claiming to have dragged a sacred object of Chemosh "before the face of Kerioth." A second Kerioth in southern Judah (Joshua 15:25) is widely connected with the surname Iscariot — "Ish Kerioth" meaning "man of Kerioth" — making Judas the only one of the twelve disciples not from Galilee, an outsider from southern Judea like Ahithophel before him.