Shiloh
The former great religious center.
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The apostolic group is on the way to Jerusalem by the central road "after Shiloh on its steep hill, had been left behind to the left [...][1] they set forth again towards Beeroth, across a plain which is not very well cultivated, but is not so barren as the little mountain they climbed after Shiloh"[2]"'Whereabouts are we?' asks Matthew who finds his bearings with difficulty. 'We are certainly between Shiloh and Bethel. I recognize the mountains' says Thomas. 'We passed here not long ago with Judas, who was the guest of a Pharisee at Bethel.'"[3]
"Jesus is speaking in the middle of a square planted with trees. The sun which is just beginning to set, brightens it with a yellow-green light, glimmering through the new leaves of gigantic plane-trees."[4]
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Jesus gives the parable of the ill-advised "The king’s son and the counselors of a rival faction" here.[5]
Its name[edit | edit source]
שילה (šīloh)[6]
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.[7] It became the main Israelite sanctuary in the times of the Judges.[8] Centralized worship was celebrated there.[9]
The tribe of Benjamin, lacking women, exterminated and subject to a curse, abducts the dancers of Shiloh to avoid the extinction of their race.[10]
Later, the Hebrews, fighting the Philistines, were ill-advised to bring the Ark onto a battlefield: it was captured and the Hebrews defeated.[11]
The sanctuary was then moved to Nob[12] 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).[13]
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