Abila(Arabic: ابيلا‎) – also, Biblical: Abel-Shittim or Ha-Shittim (or simply Shittim) – was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea; the site is now that of Abil-ez-Zeit, Jordan. Abel-Shittim (Hebrew meaning “Meadow of the Acacias”), is found only in Num. Xxxiii.49; but Ha-Shittim (Hebrew meaning “The Acacias”), evidently the same place, is mentioned in Num. Xxv.1, Josh. Iii.1, and Micah, vi.5. It was the forty-second encampment of the Israelites and the final headquarters of Joshua before he crossed the Jordan. Josephus states that there was in his time a town, Abila, full of palmtrees, at a distance of sixty stadia from the Jordan, and describes it as the spot where Moses delivered the exhortations of Deuteronomy. There is to this day[when] an acacia grove not far from the place, although the palms mentioned by Josephus are no longer there.

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