Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Shittim
The people
General references
Bible References
Shittim
Numbers 33:49
They rested by the Jordan River in the area from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
Joshua 2:1
After this, Nun's son Joshua sent two men from the Acacia groves as undercover scouts. He told them, "Go and look over the land. Pay special attention to Jericho." So they went out, came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua 3:1
Joshua got up early the next morning. Accompanied by all the Israelis, he set out from the Acacia groves and arrived at the Jordan River, where they encamped before crossing it.
Micah 6:5
"My people, recall how king Balak of Moab deliberated, and how Beor's son Balaam counseled him from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteousness of the LORD."
The people
Numbers 31:15
"Did you keep all the women alive?" Moses asked them.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
I discovered for myself a bitterness that surpasses that of death: the woman whose heart is full of snares and nets, whose hands are chains of bondage. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the transgressor will be trapped by her.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Let's stop sinning sexually, as some of them were doing, and on a single day 23,000 fell dead.
General references
Exodus 34:16
"You are not to take any of their daughters for your sons. Otherwise, when their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they may cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
Proverbs 5:14
Now I am at the point of utter disaster in the assembly and in the congregation."