Kirjath-Jearim

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Kir'jath-je'arim. (The City Of Forests). First mentioned as one of the four cities of the Gibeonites,  Joshua 9:17, it next occurs as one of the landmarks of the northern boundary of Judah,  Joshua 15:9, and as the point at which the western and southern boundaries of Benjamin coincided,  Joshua 18:14-15, and in the last two passages, we find that it bore another, perhaps earlier, name - that of the great Canaanite deity Baal, namely Baalah and Kirjath-Baal .

At this place, the Ark remained for twenty years.  1 Samuel 7:2. At the close of that time, Kirjath-jearim lost its sacred treasure, on its removal by David to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.  1 Chronicles 13:5-6;  2 Chronicles 1:4;  2 Samuel 6:2 etc. To Eusebius and Jerome, it appears to have been well known. They describe it as a village at the ninth mile between Jerusalem and Diospolis (Lydda). These requirements are exactly fulfilled in the small modern village of Kuriet-El-Enab - now usually known as Abu Gosh , from the robber chief whose headquarters it was - on the road from Jaffa and Jerusalem.

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Kirjath-jearim ( Kir'Jath-Jç'A-Rĭm ), R. V., Kiriath-Jearim, The City Of Woods. One of the four cities of the Gibeonites,  Joshua 9:17, situated on the border of Judah and Benjamin,  Joshua 15:9;  Joshua 18:14-15, but belonging to Judah,  Joshua 15:60;  Judges 18:12; was also called Baalah,  Joshua 15:9-10, or Baale of Judah,  2 Samuel 6:2, or Kirjath-baal. Hither the ark was brought from Beth-shemesh,  1 Samuel 6:21;  1 Samuel 7:1-2, and here it remained until it was removed by David.  1 Chronicles 13:5;  2 Chronicles 1:4. The prophet Urijah, who was put to death by Jehoiakim,  Jeremiah 26:20, was born here, and after the captivity the people of the city returned in numbers to it.  Nehemiah 7:29.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joshua 9:17 1 Samuel 7:1,2 2 Samuel 6:2,3,12 1 Chronicles 15:1-29 Psalm 132 Joshua 15:9Kirjath

The words of   Psalm 132:6 , "We found it in the fields of the wood," refer to the sojourn of the ark at Kirjath-jearim. "Wood" is here the rendering of the Hebrew word Jaar , Which is the singular of Jearim .

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

The city of woods,  Joshua 15:9 so called from Jahar, a forest.

Holman Bible Dictionary

Kiriath-Jearim

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Lieut. Conder regards this as as different place from the simple KIRJATH, andwas inclined at first to locate it at Soba (Tent Work, 1:22), but finally at Khurbet Erma, two and a quarter milessouth of Chesalon or Kesla (Memoirs accompanying the Ordnance Survey, 3:46 sq., where he argues the question at length); but most geographers still incline to the position at Kuryet Enab (or simply el-Kuryet), a full description of the archaeology of which is given in the same Memoirs (3:132 sq.).