What is "kirjath-huzoth"

Kirjath-huzoth or Qiryath Chutsoth, meaning city of streets or (in the Septuagint), city of villages, , was a Moabite city which some identify with Kirjathaim in eastern Jordan.

According to a story recorded in Numbers 22-24, Balak, King of Moab, received and entertained the soothsayer Balaam here, whom he had invited from Pethor, among the "mountains of the east," beyond the Euphrates, to lay a curse upon the Israelites, whose progress he had no hope otherwise of arresting. Balak offered a sacrifice of oxen and sheep there. It was probably from the summit of Attarus, the high place near the city, that the soothsayer first saw the encampments of Israel.