Shiloh
The former great religious center.
Description
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]
Notable events
Jesus gives the parable of the ill-advised "The king’s son and the counselors of a rival faction" here.[4]
Its name
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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