Land Distribution at Shiloh

18 The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh^(A) and set up the tent of meeting there. The land had been subdued before them,

¹² They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, who had not been intimate with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

³ This man would go up from his town every year^(A) to worship and to sacrifice^(B) to the Lord of Armies at Shiloh,^(C) where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord’s priests.

²¹ The Lord continued to appear in Shiloh, because there he revealed himself to Samuel by his word.^(A)

Shiloh as a Warning

¹² “‘But return to my place that was at Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first.^(A) See what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.

¹⁴ what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that bears my name,^(A) the house in which you trust, the place that I gave you and your ancestors.

⁶ I will make this temple like Shiloh.^(A) I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.’”

⁹ How dare you prophesy in the name of the Lord, ‘This temple will become like Shiloh and this city will become an uninhabited ruin’!” Then all the people crowded around Jeremiah at the Lord’s temple.