Kirjat-Jearim

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Kirjat-Jearim ( Hebrew קִרְיַת-יְעָרִים, ancient Greek Καριαθιαριμ , Latin Cariathiarim "city of forests") was a city in the land of Israel that is mentioned 18 times in the Bible under this name . It is also called Kirjat-Baal ( Jos 14.60  EU ; Jos 18.14  EU ) or Baala ( Jos 15.9-10  EU ; 2 Sam 6.2  EU ; 1 Chr 13.6  EU ) or Jáar ( Ps 132.6  EU ).

Eusebius mentions the city near Jerusalem . The Arab town of Abu Gosh is regarded as the former Kirjat-Jearim; the ancient settlement is identified with Tell El-Azhar, which is 500 meters northwest of the present-day settlement. Today there is a Jewish settlement next door called Kirjat Je'arim, which is also called Telz-Stone. Both have local councils in the Jerusalem district .

In the Bible Kirjat-Jearim plays among other things as a city of the Hivite or Gibeonites ( Jos 9.7  EU ), a border town of Judah ( Jos 18.14  EU ), as a city next to the camp of the tribe of Dan ( Ps 18.12  EU ), as the home of the Abinadab and temporary storage place of the ark after the return by the Philistines ( 1 Sam 7.1  EU ) and as the home of Uriah ( Jer 26.20  EU ).

See also

literature

  • Kirjat Jearim. In: Helmut Burkhardt et al. (Hrsg.): Das große Bibellexikon. 2 volumes, special edition, SCM R. Brockhaus / Brunnen Verlag, Witten / Giessen 2009 (first edition 1987), p. 780 f. (with further literature).
  • Erasmus Gass : Kirjat-Jearim . In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (eds.): The scientific Bibellexikon im Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff., Access date: July 4, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mentions of Cariathiarim in the Bible , accessed December 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Eusebius of Caesarea , Onomasticon 48:23; 144.25.