Shiloh, a town of the tribe of Ephraim, the first permanent resting-place of the Tabernacle (q.v.), the home of Eli and Samuel, and long the religious centre of Israel. The site is well ascertained—a ruinous village hidden among the hills 20 miles north of Jerusalem.
Shiloh
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 399
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