Horonaim
Horonaim, a Moabite city featured in prophecies against Moab.
The name Horonaim means “angers; ragings”
PlaceOld Testament3 books5 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Isaiah 15:5; referred to as Horonaim (חֹרֹנַיִם).
Location
- Certainty
- Possible (49% of scholarship) · 1 other possible location
- Coordinates
- 31.895° N, 35.084° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- חֹרֹנַיִםHoronaim
Mentions
- Meanwhile, Absalom had fled. When the young man standing watch looked up, he saw many people coming down the road west of him, along the side of the hill. And the watchman went and reported to the king, “I see men coming from the direction of Horonaim, along the side of the hill.”
- My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah. With weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim.
- A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’
- For on the ascent to Luhith they weep bitterly as they go, and on the descent to Horonaim cries of distress resound over the destruction:
- There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.