Kiriathaim

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.