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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(thorny). (1) An Asiatic tree, a species of acacia, producing a close-grained, yellowish
wood
used in making the sacred furniture of
the tabernacle
(
Ex. 25:10-13; 26:15,26; 27:1
10
And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
11
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
12
And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
13
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold. (Exodus 25:10‑13)
15
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up. (Exodus 26:15)
26
And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, (Exodus 26:26)
1
And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. (Exodus 27:1)
;
Isa. 41:19
19
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: (Isaiah 41:19)
). (2) Last encampment of the Israelites before crossing the
Jordan
. Scene of the completion of the
law
and farewell of
Moses
(Num. 25; 31:1-12;
Josh. 2:1; 3:1
1
And 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. (Joshua 2:1)
1
And 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. (Joshua 3:1)
). The
spies
were sent out from
Shittim
to
Jericho
, and there the final preparations were made for crossing the Jordan. It was also called
Abel
-shittim, “meadow of acacias,” and was the well-watered, fertile plain stretching from the foot of the mountains of
Moab
to the banks of the Jordan. (3) “
Valley
of Shittim” (
Joel 3:18
18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. (Joel 3:18)
), is doubtless same as Shittim (2), which was also known as Abel-shittim.
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
Plain on the
east
of the
Jordan
, where the Israelites encamped before they crossed the Jordan. The name signifies “acacias” (
Num. 25:1
1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. (Numbers 25:1)
;
Josh. 2:1
1
And 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. (Joshua 2:1)
;
Josh. 3:1
1
And 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. (Joshua 3:1)
;
Joel 3:18
18
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim. (Joel 3:18)
;
Mic. 6:5
5
O 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. (Micah 6:5)
). In
Numbers 33:49
49
And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab. (Numbers 33:49)
it is called
ABEL
-SHITTIM.
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
acacias
Call: 1-630-543-1441
“Study to show thyself approved unto God, … rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Timothy 2:15).
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