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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Shaveh Kiriathaim
The plain around Kiriathaim, east of the Jordan. The eastern kings beat the Emim there in Genesis 14:5.
The plain around Kiriathaim, east of the Jordan. The eastern kings beat the Emim there in Genesis 14:5.
Shaveh Kiriathaim was the plain surrounding Kiriathaim, a town east of the Jordan where the eastern coalition of kings defeated the Emim during the campaign described in Genesis 14:5, before Chedorlaomer moved south to strike Sodom and Gomorrah. Kiriathaim later belonged to Moab and is named in the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone), where King Mesha claims credit for rebuilding it alongside other Moabite towns known from the Bible. The exact location of the surrounding plain is not established.
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- Genesis 14:5
