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Shiloh
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Shiloh (shî'loh). 1. The word "Shiloh," as used in Genesis 49:10, has given rise to much discussion. Some consider it as referring to the town; others apply it to the Messiah. 2. A city of Ephraim, north of Bethel, and where the tabernacle was set up. Joshua 18:1. It was thus the sacred capital where solemn assemblies were held, Joshua 18:8-10; Joshua 19:51; Joshua 21:2; Joshua 22:12; not, however, to the entire exclusion of other places. Joshua 24:1; Joshua 24:25-26. Through the period of the judges' administration the tabernacle seems to have remained at Shiloh. Judges 18:31; Judges 21:12; Judges 21:19; Judges 21:21. It was there in the priesthood of Eli. Samuel was there called to be a prophet. 1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 1:9; 1 Samuel 1:24; 1 Samuel 2:14; 1 Samuel 3:21; 1 Samuel 4:3-4; 1 Samuel 4:12; 1 Kings 2:27. After the ark of God had been taken by the Philistines we do not find that it was ever restored to the tabernacle at Shiloh. It was sometimes with the army, 1 Samuel 14:18; but its resting-place was with Abinadab at Kirjath-jearim. 1 Samuel 7:1-2. And then we hear little more of Shiloh; the tabernacle itself was removed, 2 Chronicles 1:3; and Jerusalem became ultimately the city which the Lord chose, to place his name there.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Shiloh'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/s/shiloh.html. 1893.
