CARIATHIARIM (Hebrew Qirjāth Jā 'Ārīm). - A city also called Qirjāth ba'al, a recent name for the ancient Ba'alāh (Josh. 15, 9), a border city between the tribe of Ephraim and that of Judah. For several years it housed the ark of the covenant in the house of Abinadab, when it was returned to the Jews by the Philistines who had taken it in the battle near Alek (I Sam. 6, 21; 7, 1 ff.), until David had it transported to Zion

(II Sam. 6, 3; I Chron. 13, 5 etc.). The prophet Uriah, a contemporary of Jeremiah, was from C. (Jer. 26, 20). The Jews returning from exile repopulated it (Ezra 2, 25; Neh. 7, 29). Eusebius (Onomasticon, ed. E. Klostermann, Leipzig 1904, p. 114, 23-27) identifies it with a locality 9 miles from Jerusalem, toward Lydda, corresponding to present-day Abû Gôš, formerly Qarjat el-'inab, 12 km. from Jerusalem along the road to Jaffa.

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BIBL.: P. Lauffa, Zur Lage und Geschichte des Ortes Kirjath Yearim, in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Pollutino-Vereins, 38 (1915), pp. 249-302; F.-M. Abel, Découverte d'un tombeau antique à Abou-Ghôch, in Revue biblique, 30 (1921), pp. 97-102.

Angelo Penna

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