Jos 18:1, Judg 19:18, 21:21, 1Sa 1:3, 4:4, Jer 7:12 | TSK | STEP | The tabernacle is set up at Shiloh. The remainder of the land is described, and divided into seven parts. Joshua distributes it by lot. The lot and border of Benjamin. Their cities. Shiloh.Shiloh was situated on a hill in the tribe of Ephraim, though near the borders of Benjamin, about fifteen miles north of Jerusalem, and, according to Eusebius, twelve, or according to Jerome, ten miles (south) from Shechem or Nablous. It was but a little north from Bethel or Ai, and near the road from Shechem to Jerusalem. (Jud 21:19.) In Jerome's time, Shiloh was ruined; and nothing remarkable was extant, but the foundations of the altar of burnt offerings which had been erected when the tabernacle stood there. set up.

Joshua 18:1

1 The tabernacle is set up at Shiloh.

2 The remainder of the land is described, and divided into seven parts.

10 Joshua distributes it by lot.

11 The lot and border of Benjamin.

21 Their cities.

Shiloh.Shiloh was situated on a hill in the tribe of Ephraim, though near the borders of Benjamin, about fifteen miles north of Jerusalem, and, according to Eusebius, twelve, or according to Jerome, ten miles (south) from Shechem or Nablous. It was but a little north from Bethel or Ai, and near the road from Shechem to Jerusalem. (Jud 21:19.) In Jerome's time, Shiloh was ruined; and nothing remarkable was extant, but the foundations of the altar of burnt offerings which had been erected when the tabernacle stood there.

19:51; 21:2; 22:9

set up.

Jud 18:31; 1Sa 1:3,24; 4:3,4; 1Ki 2:27; 14:2,4; Ps 78:66

Jer 7:12-14; 26:6

Judges 19:18

I am now.The LXX. read, [eis ton oikon mou ego poreuomai:] "I am going to my own house;" which is probably the true reading, as we find (ver. 29) that he really went home; yet he might have gone previously to Shiloh, or to "the house of the Lord," because that was also in mount Ephraim.

the house.

18:31; 20:18; Jos 18:1; 1Sa 1:3,7

receiveth. Heb. gathereth.

5; Ps 26:9; Joh 15:6