Shiloh
The former great religious center.
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The apostolic group on the way to Jerusalem by the central road "leaves Shiloh on the left, which stands on its mountain... We resume the march to Beeroth across a plain, not very cultivated but not absolutely arid as was the hill crossed since Shiloh."[1]"Where can we be?" asks Matthew, who has poor orientation.- "Between Shiloh and Bethel certainly," says Thomas.
- "I recognize the mountains. I passed through there not long ago, with Judas, who at Bethel was received by some Pharisees."[2]
"Jesus speaks in the middle of a square covered with trees. The sun, which is just beginning to set, illuminates him with a yellow-green light that filters through the new leaves of the giant plane trees."[3]
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Jesus gives the parable of the ill-advised "The king’s son and the counselors of a rival faction" here.[4]
Its name[edit | edit source]
שילה (šīloh)[5]
Shiloh
Other names: Kh. Seilun, Seilun, Shillo, Shilo.
Today located 14 km north of Bethel and about thirty kilometers from Jerusalem. The historical site is on a hill 500 m west of the present town of Shilohh.
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Place where the tent of the Encounter was erected as soon as the land of Canaan was conquered by the Israelites.[6] It became the main Israelite sanctuary in the times of the Judges.[7] Centralized Worship was celebrated there.[8]
The tribe of Benjamin, lacking women, exterminated and subject to a curse, abducts the dancers of Shiloh to avoid the extinction of their race[9].
Later, the Hebrews, fighting the Philistines, were ill-advised to bring the Ark onto a battlefield: it was captured and the Hebrews defeated.[10]
The sanctuary was then moved to Nob[11] and Shiloh ceased to be a religious center.
One of the prophets of Shiloh, Ahijah, predicted to Jeroboam the split of the kingdom of Solomon (Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah).[12]
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