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Joshua is described setting up the tabernacle at Shiloh, for God to live among his people. Psalm 78 reflects on that, saying God later abandoned it, and using Shiloh’s fall to explain why he turned away from northern Israel and chose Jerusalem instead.
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Joshua 18:1
Hebrew Bible
1 The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land, 2 seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land. 3 So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long do you intend to put off occupying the land the Lord God of your ancestors has given you?
Psalms 78:60
Hebrew Bible
58 They made him angry with their pagan shrines and made him jealous with their idols. 59 God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel. 60 He abandoned the sanctuary at Shiloh, the tent where he lived among men. 61 He allowed the symbol of his strong presence to be captured; he gave the symbol of his splendor into the hand of the enemy. 62 He delivered his people over to the sword and was angry with his chosen nation.
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Notes and References
... Yahweh declines David's offer to build a temple due to the fact that from the Exodus until now, 'I have been moving about in a tent and in a Tabernacle' (2 Samuel 7:6), seemingly referring to Shiloh. Elsewhere the Shiloh sanctuary is clearly tent-related, called 'tent of the appointed time' (Joshua 18:1; 19:51; 1 Samuel 2:22), a 'tent' and a 'tabernacle' (Psalm 78:60). Nothing is said of a temple at Shiloh or anywhere else. Thus, some, most notably Menahem Haran and Richard E. Friedman, have preferred the tent shrine located at Shiloh as the model for P's Tabernacle. Given the strong Egyptian influence on the form, furnishings and orientation of the Tabernacle, it is not surprising that the Shiloh shrine is maintained by officials bearing Egyptian names: Hophni and Phinehas (1 Samuel 1-4). ...
Homan, Michael M.
To Your Tents, O Israel! The Terminology, Function, Form, and Symbolism of Tents in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
(p. 135) Brill, 2002
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