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Abel-shittim
Meadow of the acacias, frequently called simply “Shittim” (Num 25:1; Josh 2:1; Mic 6:5), a place on the east of Jordan, in the plain of Moab, nearly opposite Jericho. It was the forty-second encampment of the Israelites, their last resting-place before they crossed the Jordan (Num 33:49; Num 22:1; Num 26:3; Num 31:12; comp. Num 25:1; Num 31:16).
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Numbers 33:49 And they pitched by Jordan, from Bethjesimoth even unto Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
