Numbers 25:1

1 Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry.

6 Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi.

10 God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood.

16 The Midianites are to be vexed.

Shittim.

33:49; Jos 2:1; 3:1; Mic 6:5

the people.

31:15,16; Ec 7:26; 1Co 10:8

Numbers 33:49

Beth-jesimoth.Probably the place called Bethsimath by Eusebius, east of Jordan, and about ten miles south of Jericho.

Jos 13:20; Eze 25:9

Abel-shittim. or, the plains of Shittim.This place, according to Josephus, (Ant. 1. iv. c. 7, 1. Bell. 1. v. c. 3,) who calls it Abela, was 60 furlongs east of Jordan.

25:1-9; Ex 25:5,10,23; Jos 2:1
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