Horonaim

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Horonaim is a city mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah, in chapter 48:

Chapter 48, verse 3:

Listen to the cries from Horonaim,

cries of great havoc and destruction. (NIV)

48:5:

They go up the way to Luhithm

weeping bitterly as they go;

on the road down to Horonaim

anguished cries over the destruction

are heard. (NIV)

48:34:

The sound of their cry rises

from Heshbon to Elealeh and Jahaz,

from Zoar as far as Horonaim and Eglath

Shelishiyah

for even the waters of Nimrim are

dried up. (NIV)

The account appears to refer to the wars of the Moabite king Mesha against the Israelites of the trans-Jordanian land of Gilead.^{[citation needed]}