Place

Shittim

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Where Israel stays at Numbers 25:1, when the people begin to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab. This collection keeps it apart from the entry for the valley of Siddim. Numbers 33:49 says the camp in the plains of Moab stretched from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim. Joshua 2:1 says that Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies. Joshua 3:1 says Joshua got up early in the morning, and he and all the children of Israel moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and camped there before they crossed over.

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JOS 2:1, engwebp
¹Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
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JOS 3:1–6, engwebp
¹Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.
²After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;
³and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the LORD your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.
⁴Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”
⁵Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”
⁶Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
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MIC 6:1–8, engwebp
¹Listen now to what the LORD says: “Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear what you have to say.
²Hear, you mountains, the LORD’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for the LORD has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel.
³My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!
⁴For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage. I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.
⁵My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”
⁶How shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
⁷Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
⁸He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does the LORD require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
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NUM 25:1–5, engwebp
¹Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
²for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods.
³Israel joined himself to Baal Peor, and the LORD’s anger burned against Israel.
⁴The LORD said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”
⁵Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Everyone kill his men who have joined themselves to Baal Peor.”
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NUM 33:41–49, engwebp
⁴¹They traveled from Mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
⁴²They traveled from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
⁴³They traveled from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
⁴⁴They traveled from Oboth, and encamped in Iye Abarim, in the border of Moab.
⁴⁵They traveled from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon Gad.
⁴⁶They traveled from Dibon Gad, and encamped in Almon Diblathaim.
⁴⁷They traveled from Almon Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
⁴⁸They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
⁴⁹They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
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AI-assisted, human review pending, 2026-09-26

Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.

Geographic sources & candidates

Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Shittim” by name and 4 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Tall el Hammam (confidence 671 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.

AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29

Tall el Hammam
OpenBible.info confidence 671 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.84018, 35.67368
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Shittim” (CC BY 4.0)
Tall Kafrayn
OpenBible.info confidence 147 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.85055, 35.65296
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Shittim” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (4) — Israel joined to Baal Peor at Shittim, From Mount Hor to the plains of Moab, Joshua sends two men out of Shittim as spies, From Shittim to the Jordan, and the command to follow the ark

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Numbers 25:1 Open that verse

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;

Numbers 33:49 Open that verse

They encamped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth even to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.

Joshua 2:1 Open that verse

Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

Joshua 3:1 Open that verse

Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.

Micah 6:5 Open that verse

My people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”

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Entry: Shittim (place-shittim)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/shittim
Current wording: Where Israel stays at Numbers 25:1, when the people begin to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab. This collection keeps it apart from the entry for the valley of Siddim. Numbers 33:49 says the camp in the plains of Moab stretched from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim. Joshua 2:1 says that Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies. Joshua 3:1 says Joshua got up early in the morning, and he and all the children of Israel moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and camped there before they crossed over.
Cited evidence: JOS 2:1, engwebp / JOS 3:1–6, engwebp / MIC 6:1–8, engwebp / NUM 25:1–5, engwebp / NUM 33:41–49, engwebp
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