Luhith

The Ascent of Luhith ("planks" or "boards") was a road climbing into the central Moabite plateau, named in the prophetic laments of both Isaiah and Jeremiah against Moab (Isaiah 15:5, Jeremiah 48:5). In Isaiahs oracle, the fugitives of stricken Moab "go up the ascent of Luhith weeping; on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of destruction." Jeremiah's parallel oracle uses identical language. The detail of "weeping on the way up" suggests the road climbed steeply enough that pursued people could be heard from afar. The site of the Luhith ascent is uncertain but is generally placed in the southern Moabite highlands between Kir-hareseth and Horonaim — possibly the modern road climbing from the Dead Sea up through Wadi Ibn Hammad. Eusebius placed Luhith between Areopolis (Rabbath-moab) and Zoar, fitting the broader picture of Moabite geographic distress in the oracle.