Verse 1

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the women of Moab.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 2:1 : 1 Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from Shittim, saying, "Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho." They went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
  • Num 33:49 : 49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim, on the plains of Moab.
  • Mic 6:5 : 5 My people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised and what Balaam son of Beor answered him, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 10:8 : 8 We must not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them fell.
  • Num 31:15-16 : 15 And Moses said to them, 'Have you spared all the women?' 16 Behold, these women caused the people of Israel to act unfaithfully against the LORD through the advice of Balaam in the matter of Peor, which led to the plague among the congregation of the LORD.
  • Josh 3:1 : 1 Joshua rose early in the morning, and he and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan. They stayed there before crossing over.
  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I found that more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be caught by her.
  • Rev 2:14 : 14 But I have a few things against you: You have those there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the Israelites—to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.