Biblical places
Shiloh
The religious center where the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant were kept for a long period after the conquest of Canaan — where Samuel grew up and Hannah prayed.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Khirbet Seilun (Tel Shiloh)
- 32.0557, 35.2895
The two sources' coordinates agree; there is little scholarly disagreement over its modern identification.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Joshua 18:1
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
Judges 18:31
And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
1 Samuel 1:3
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word of the LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Psalms 78:60
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Jeremiah 7:12
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
Joshua 18:8
And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
Judges 21:12
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.