Kirharaseth
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [1]
A city of Moab. It is supposed to mean, a place of heat. We know that Kir is city; and Haresh is sometimes put for brick or baked. The prophet Isaiah saith, that his bowels "sounded like an harp for Moab, and his inward parts for Kei-haresh," which was the chief city of Moab. ( Isaiah 16:11) Whether the prophet's lamentation for Moab was from the ruin of it as a city, (see 2 Kings 3:1-27 throughout,) or whether spiritually considered, I know not. The city itself was certainly fertile, and the whole country of Moab delightful for fruits and vineyards, which historians tell us extended even to the borders of the Dead Sea. Such was our nature originally, like the garden of Eden; and who but must lament to behold the ruin by the fall. Oh, the blessedness of that recovery by the Lord Jesus Christ!
