Ashteroth Karnaim

Ashteroth Karnaim (Biblical Hebrew: עַשְׁתְּרֹת קַרְנַיִם, romanized: ʿAštəroṯ Qarnayim, lit. 'Two-Horned Astarte') was a city east of the Jordan River in Bashan in the northern part of the Transjordan

There were originally two neighbouring cities, Ashtaroth, and northeast of it Karnaim, the latter annexing the name of the former after Ashtaroth's decline and becoming known as Ashteroth Karnaim.

Ashteroth Karnaim was mentioned under this name in the Battle of Siddim in the Book of Genesis and in Joshua 12:4, where it is rendered simply as "Ashtaroth". Karnaim is also mentioned by the prophet Amos in Amos 6:13, where those in Israel are boasting to have taken it.

Karnaim/Ashteroth Karnaim is considered to be the same as the Karnein of the Hellenistic period mentioned in 2 Maccabees 12:21, rendered in the King James Version as Carnion, and possibly as "Carnaim" in 1 Maccabees.

Eusebius (c. 260/265–340) writes of Karneia/Karnaia, a large village inArabia Petraea, where a house of Job was identified by tradition.