SHAVEH-KIRIATHAIM. The Emims, an ancient People beyond Jordan, dwelt at Kiriathaim. Chedorlaomer and his Confederates defeated them the same Year that they attack’d the five Kings of Pentapolis1. Afterwards the Moabites drove Deut. ii. 10.out the Emims, and destroy’d them. Shaveh-kiriathaim is probably a Plain near the City of Kiriathaim: But this City was beyond Jordan, ten Miles from Medaba towards Eufeb. in locis. Numbers xxxii. 37. Josh. xiii. 19.the West, as Eusebius says. It was given to the Tribe of Reuben; but afterwards it was possess’d by the Moabites. See Ezek. xxv. 9.
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In the Year of the World 2092, before Christ 1908, before the Vulgar Era 1912. ↩