… Given the association of the house of Eli with the city of Shiloh, it is notable that the former national sanctuary is a central illustration in Jeremiah’s Temple sermon of chapter 7. Presumably Shiloh is destroyed in the battle of Ebenezer, and thus it abruptly ceases to be a central locale and place of worship (compare Psalm 78:60–64). Some four centuries later, in Jeremiah’s time, Shiloh is evidently a heap of ruins, and the citizens of Judah are invited to compare the fate of Shiloh and the future of Jerusalem: “Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the Lord. Go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I made my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel” (7:11–12; compare 26:6–9). The cultic aberrations of the Elides are notorious: they devise an innovative three-pronged fork to increase their share of the boiled offerings, alongside their reprehensible abuse of the women serving at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting (1 Samuel 2:13; 22). Comparing Jerusalem to Shiloh, then, is a daring move …