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Moabite tableland city explicitly named on the Mesha Stele — once held by Reuben
MoabHistorically Verified
Identified with el-Qereiyat near Medeba in Jordan. The Mesha Stele explicitly names Kiriathaim as one of King Mesha's reconstruction projects — direct extrabiblical confirmation.
A Moabite city on the tableland east of the Jordan, originally inhabited by the Emim — a tall, fearsome people — until the Moabites displaced them and named it (Genesis 14:5; Deuteronomy 2:10-11). It was later captured by the Israelites and assigned to Reuben (Numbers 32:37; Joshua 13:19), but reverted to Moabite control by the time of the prophetic oracles. Both Jeremiah and Ezekiel named Kiriathaim when announcing judgment on Moab (Jeremiah 48:1, 23; Ezekiel 25:9), and the Mesha Stele records Mesha rebuilding the city.
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