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Numbers 25

Num. 25:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
abode
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in Shittim
Shittiym (Hebrew #7851)
acacia trees; Shittim, a place East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Shittim.
Pronounce: shit-teem'
Origin: the same as the plural of 7848
i, and the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
began
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
to commit whoredom
zanah (Hebrew #2181)
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, X continually, X great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Pronounce: zaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (highly-fed and therefore wanton)
k with the daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
of Moab
Mow'ab (Hebrew #4124)
from (her (the mother's)) father; Moab, an incestuous son of Lot; also his territory and descendants
KJV usage: Moab.
Pronounce: mo-awb
Origin: from a prolonged form of the prepositional prefix m- and 1
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Num. 33:49• 49And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab. (Num. 33:49)
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Mic. 6:5• 5O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. (Mic. 6:5)
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Num. 31:16• 16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. (Num. 31:16)
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1 Cor. 10:8• 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (1 Cor. 10:8)

More on:

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Daughter,
Israel,
Moab; Moabites,
Shittim

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-5:  Israel at Shittim commit whoredom and idolatry.
6-9:  Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi.
10-15:  God therefore gives him an everlasting priesthood.
16-18:  The Midianites are to be vexed.
Shittim.
Num. 33:49• 49And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab. (Num. 33:49)
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Josh. 2:1• 1And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. (Josh. 2:1)
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Josh. 3:1• 1And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. (Josh. 3:1)
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Mic. 6:5• 5O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. (Mic. 6:5)
the people.
Num. 31:15‑16• 15And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
 16Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. (Num. 31:15‑16)
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Eccl. 7:26• 26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. (Eccl. 7:26)
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1 Cor. 10:8• 8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. (1 Cor. 10:8)
• But before the soothsayer left his disappointed patron, he apparently made a vile suggestion to him. If Jehovah could not be turned away from His people, perhaps the people could be turned away from Jehovah! Balaam knew enough of God to be sure that if the people of Israel could be tempted into sin Jehovah's hand would come down upon them in judgment. (“The Doctrine of Balaam” by W.W. Fereday)
• Balak was recommended by Balaam to bring out the women and girls of Moab, and thus cast a snare before the all too frail people of Jehovah! Moses became aware of this later, for he referred to it when reproving the people for sparing all the women after a campaign against Midian. “Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Jehovah in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of Jehovah” (Num. 31:15-16). (“The Doctrine of Balaam” by W.W. Fereday)
• It reminds us of the opening and the close of 2 Corinthians 12. In the former, we have the positive standing of the Christian; in the latter, the possible state into which he may fall if not watchful. That shows us “a man in Christ” capable of being caught up into paradise, at any moment. This shows us saints of God capable of plunging into all manner of sin and folly.... In the one case, we have their perfect standing; in the other, their imperfect state. Balaam’s parables give us God’s estimate of the former; the javelin of Phinehas, His judgment upon the latter. God will never reverse His decision as to what His people are as to standing; but He must judge and chasten them when their ways comport not with that standing. (“Numbers 25” by C.H. Mackintosh)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.

W. Kelly Translation

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And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)