Bible Location
Meaning: thorns · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Shittim, also called Abel-shittim, was the plain in Moab where Israel camped just before crossing the Jordan. It is important because it was the launching point for the spies to Jericho and the setting of Israel's grave failure with Moabite seduction and Baal-peor. First appears in Num 25:1.1
AI summary: Shittim lies at the threshold of entry into the land, and that location intensifies everything that happens there. It is both the final camp of anticipation from which Joshua sends spies and the place of one of Israel's most serious wilderness sins in the worship crisis tied to Moab. Micah later recalls the movement from Shittim to Gilgal as a summary of God's faithful leading. The cross references present Shittim as a plains-of-Moab camp where promise, testing, and transition are all compressed into one setting.1
Acacias, also called “Abel-shittim” (Num. 33:49), a plain or valley in the land of Moab where the Israelites were encamped after their two victories over Sihon and Og, at the close of their desert wanderings, and from which Joshua sent forth two spies (q.v.) “secretly” to “view” the land and Jericho (Josh. 2:1). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.