Jeremiah 48:23
“on Kiriathaim, on Beth Gamul, on Beth Meon,”
What does Jeremiah 48:23 mean?
This verse is part of Jeremiah's prophecy against Moab, listing towns that will face judgment. The names themselves—Kiriathaim, Beth Gamul, and Beth Meon—were real cities in Moab (the region east of the Jordan River), and mentioning them by name made the warning concrete and personal to people who knew these places. The repetition of "on" creates a kind of drumbeat effect, emphasizing that nowhere in Moab would escape what was coming. If you're reading this passage, the larger point is that God's judgment reaches everywhere, sparing no corner, but also that these weren't arbitrary destructions—they were responses to real injustice and idolatry that the prophets had warned about.