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Shittim: (the acacias), the place of Israel's encampment between the conquest of the transjordanic highlands and the passage of the Jordan. Nu 25:1; 33:49; Jos 2:1; 3:1; Mic 6:5 Its full name appears to be given in the first of these passage --Abel has-Shittim, "the meadow, or moist place, of the acacias." it was "in the Arboth-moab, by Jordan-Jericho," (Numb 22:1; 26:3; 31:12; 33:48,49 that is to say, it was in the Arabah or Jordan valley, opposite Jericho. |
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