Shiloh

Shiloh

Shiloh , town, central ancient Palestine, the modern Khirbet Seilun, the West Bank, NNE of Jerusalem. In biblical times it lay in the territory of Ephraim . The Hebrews were, apparently, the first to build extensively on the site. Shiloh was home to the priests Eli and Ahijah, boyhood home of Samuel , and the place where the Ark rested after the conquest of Canaan. It was the sanctuary and meeting place of the Levites until the Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant. References to it in the Bible are numerous.

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Shiloh North of Jerusalem and Bethel and west of the River Jordan, Shiloh was a religious centre of the tribes in the 12th cent. BCE at the time of the distribution of land (Josh. 18: 9). It was a sanctuary with a priesthood and Eli and his sons ministered there until the Ark was captured by the Philistines (1 Sam. 4).

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Shiloh, USA, West Bank USA (Ohio): ‘Place of Peace’ in Hebrew and named after the Canaanite city, long in ruins, in the West Bank. The Shiloh National Military Park is in Tennessee.

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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Shiloh." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Shiloh." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Shiloh.html

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