Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Shittim

Numbers 33:49
They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
Joshua 2:1
Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.
Joshua 3:1
Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and he and all the sons of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they lodged there before they crossed.
Micah 6:5
“My people, remember now
What Balak king of Moab counseled
And what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
And from Shittim to Gilgal,
So that you might know the righteous acts of the Lord.”

The people

Numbers 31:15
And Moses said to them, “Have you spared all the women?
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

General references

Exodus 34:16
and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.
Proverbs 5:14
“I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”