Treasury of Scripture
And Kirjathaim This city, according to Eusebius, was situated ten miles west of Medeba.
Numbers 32:37,38 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim...
Sibman Called Shibmah
Numbers 32:37,38 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim...
and celebrated for its vines
Jeremiah 48:32 O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for you with the weeping of Jazer: your plants are gone over the sea, they reach even to the sea of Jazer...
Isaiah 16:8,9 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof...
on which last place, Jerome says, there were scarcely
500 paces between it and Heshbon.