Bible Strands
Joshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records a post-conquest moment when the entire congregation of Israel gathers at Shiloh to establish the Tent of Meeting before the remaining seven tribes receive their inheritance.
The words — The text employs עֲדַ֤ת ('a.Dat), meaning "congregation," to identify the assembled people, and וַ/יַּשְׁכִּ֥ינוּ (va/i.yash.Ki.nu), literally "and they caused to dwell," for the act of setting up the Tent of Meeting at Shiloh.
The thread — Shiloh operates as the central administrative and worship hub in Joshua 19:51 and Joshua 21:2 during the tribal inheritance distribution, and persists as the annual pilgrimage site for Elkanah in 1 Samuel 1:3.
Why it lands — The verse demands that a reader acknowledge centralized worship was established in Shiloh prior to the completion of territorial allotments, structuring the subsequent inheritance process as a deliberate, ordered sequence rather than a spontaneous military outcome.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Joshua 19:51 These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.
- Joshua 21:2 at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”
- 1 Samuel 1:3 Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.
- Joshua 22:9 So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.
- Jeremiah 26:6 then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
- Judges 18:31 So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
- 1 Samuel 1:24 Once she had weaned him, Hannah took the boy with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. Though the boy was still young, she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh.
- 1 Samuel 4:3 When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”
- 1 Kings 2:27 So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.
- 1 Kings 14:2 and Jeroboam said to his wife, “Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people.