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'''Kirjath-huzoth''' - city of streets, {{bibleverse||Numbers|22:39}}, a [[Moabite]] city, which some identify with [[Kirjathaim]]. [[Balak]] here received and entertained [[Balaam]], whom he had invited from [[Pethor]], among the "mountains of the east," beyond the [[Euphrates]], to lay his ban upon the [[Israelite]]s, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting. It was probably from the summit of [[Attarus]], the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of [[Israel]]. |
'''Kirjath-huzoth''' - city of streets, {{bibleverse||Numbers|22:39}}, a [[Moabite]] city, which some identify with [[Kirjathaim]]. [[Balak]] here received and entertained [[Balaam]], whom he had invited from [[Pethor]], among the "mountains of the east," beyond the [[Euphrates]], to lay his ban upon the [[Israelite]]s, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting. It was probably from the summit of [[Attarus]], the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of [[Israel]]. |
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Kirjath-huzoth - city of streets, Numbers 22:39, a Moabite city, which some identify with Kirjathaim. Balak here received and entertained Balaam, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the "mountains of the east," beyond the Euphrates, to lay his ban upon the Israelites, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting. It was probably from the summit of Attarus, the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of Israel.
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