Numbers 22:39
So Balaam accompanied Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
BSB
ASV
And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kiriath-huzoth.
KJV
And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kirjath–huzoth.
And Balaam went with Balak,.... From Ar of Moab, or, however, from the place where they met, to the royal city where Balak had his palace, and seems to be the place following: and they came to Kirjathhuzoth; which Jarchi interprets a city full of streets, a populous place, having a multitude of men, women, and children in the streets of it; and the same writer suggests as if Balak's view in this was to move the pity of Balaam, that such a number of people might not be rooted out and destroyed.
Kirjath-buzoth - i. e., “city of streets,” within Balak’s dominions, south of the Arnon, and identified either with the ruins of Shihan, 4 miles west by south of the site assigned to Ar or Ir, or with Kirjathaim (Kureivat).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
