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the Third Week after Epiphany
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Abel-Shittim
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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a city situate in the plains of Moab, beyond Jordan, opposite to Jericho, Numbers 25:1 , &c.; 23:49; Joshua 11:1 . 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.
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Watson, Richard. Entry for 'Abel-Shittim'. Richard Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wtd/a/abel-shittim.html. 1831-2.
Watson, Richard. Entry for 'Abel-Shittim'. Richard Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wtd/a/abel-shittim.html. 1831-2.
