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HORONAIM

Moabite settlement of uncertain location, listed in prophetic oracles against Moab (Is 15:5; Jer 48:3-5, 34). It fell to Alexander Janneus, but the Hasmonean rule was subsequently returned to King Aretas by John Hyrcanus (Josephus’s Antiquities 13.15.4; 14.1.4).