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Kirjath-jearim (the city of forests), first mentioned as one of the four cities of the Gibeonites, Jos 9:17 it next occurs as one of the landmarks of the northern boundary of Judah, ch Jos 15:9 and as the point at which the western and southern boundaries of Benjamin coincided, ch. Jos 18:14,15 and in the last two passages we find that it bore another, perhaps earlier, name --that of the great Canaanite deity Baal, namely BAALAH and KIRJATH-BAAL. At this place the ark remained for twenty years. 1Sa 7:2 At the close of that time Kirjath-jearim lost its sacred treasure, on its removal by David to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 1Ch 13:5,6; 2Ch 1:4; 2Sa 6:2 etc. To Eusebius and Jerome it appears to have been well known. They describe it as a village at the ninth mile between Jerusalem and Diospolis (Lydda). These requirements are exactly fulfilled in the small modern village of Kuriet-el-Enab --now usually known as Abu Gosh, from the robber chief whose headquarters it was --on the road from Jaffa and Jerusalem. |
Smith, William, Dr "Definition for 'Kirjath-jearim' Smiths Bible Dictionary".
bible-history.com - Smiths; 1901.
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