Abel-shittim @ meadow of the acacias, frequently called simply "Shittim" Numbers:25:1; Joshua:2:1; Micah:6:5), a place on the east of Jordan, in the plain of Moab, nearly opposite Jericho. It was the forty-second encampment of the Israelites, their last resting-place before they crossed the Jordan Numbers:33:49Numbers:22:1Numbers:26:3 ; 31:12; comp. 25:1; 31:16).
