Two caverns, a city of Moab to the south of the Arnon, built, apparently, upon an eminence, and a place of some importance (Isa. 15:5; Jer. 48:3, 5, 34).
Horonaim
Horonaim is a town in Moab, and in the prophets it is a place of grief. Isaiah and Jeremiah both picture people fleeing up the road toward Zoar, weeping as they climb. “A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction,” says Jeremiah. Isaiah, for his part, says his own heart cries out for Moab, so these are not words of cold judgment alone. Horonaim appears only in these warnings against Moab, as a name that stands for a whole country’s loss. Isaiah 15 and Jeremiah 48 are the places to read them.
4 verses
Isaiah
Isaiah 15:5
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 48:3
A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction.
Jeremiah 48:5
For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 48:34
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(two caverns), a town of Moab, possibly a sanctuary, named with Zoar and Luhith. (Isaiah 15:5; Jeremiah 48:3,5,34)