A city situate in the plains of Moab, beyond Jordan, opposite to Jericho, Num. xxv, 1, &c; Abel-Shittim is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “mourning of thorns.” This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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a city situate in the plains of Moab, beyond Jordan, opposite to Jericho, Num. xxv, 1, &c; xxiii, 49; Joshua xi, 1. Eusebius says it stood in the neighbourhood of mount Peor. Moses encamped at Abel-Shittim some time before the Hebrew army passed the Jordan. Here the Israelites fell into idolatry, and worshipped Baal-peor, for which God punished them by the destruction of twenty-four thousand persons in one day.