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.
Parallel translations
- WEB “But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- BSB But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- NKJV “But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I set My name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- NASB “But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the beginning, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- NLT “‘Go now to the place at Shiloh where I once put the Tabernacle that bore my name. See what I did there because of all the wickedness of my people, the Israelites.
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Quick answer
God points to Shiloh, His former sanctuary that He allowed to be destroyed because of Israel's wickedness. Past judgment proves that no holy place is immune when its people are unfaithful.
Overview
Shiloh once housed the tabernacle and ark but fell into ruin, likely in the Philistine conquest. God uses it as a sobering precedent: a place He chose for His name was not spared when His people sinned. The lesson shatters the illusion that Jerusalem's temple could never fall.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 26:6Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
- Josh 18:1And 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.
- 1 Sam 4:10–11And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
- Judg 18:31And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
- Ps 78:60–64So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
- 1 Sam 4:22And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
- Deut 12:11Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
- 1 Sam 4:3–4And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
- 1 Sam 1:3And 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.
- Deut 12:5But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
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