Shihon
(ruin), a town of Issachar, named only in (Joshua 19:19) Eusebius mentions it as then existing
“near Mount Tabor.”
Shihor Of Egypt
[Sihor]
Shihorlibnath
(black of whiteness), named only in (Joshua 19:26) as one of the landmarks of the boundary of
Asher. (probably the little stream called on the map of Pal. Ord. Survey Wady en Nebra, “which
enters the Mediterranean a little south of Athlit.” The name would come from the turgid character
of the stream contrasted with the white and glistening sands of its shore.—ED.)
Shilhi
(armed), the father of Azubah the mother of Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:42; 2 Chronicles 20:31)
(B.C. before 946.)
Shilhim
(fountains), one of the cities in the southern portion of the tribe of Judah. (Joshua 15:32)
Shillem
(requital), son of Naphtali and an ancestor of the family of the Shillemites. (Genesis 46:24;
Numbers 26:49)
Shillemites, The
[Shillem]
Shiloah, The Waters Of
a certain soft-flowing stream, (Isaiah 8:6) better known under the later name of Siloam -the
only perennial spring of Jerusalem.
Shiloh
(place of rest), a city of Ephraim. In (Judges 21:19) it is said that Shiloh is “on the north side
of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem and on the south
of Lebonah.” In agreement with this the traveller of our own city, going north from Jerusalem,
lodges the first night at Beitin, the ancient Bethel; the next day, at the distance of a few hours, turns
aside to the right, in order to visit Seilun, the Arabic for Shiloh; and then passing through the narrow
wady which brings him to the main road, leaves el-Lebban, the Lebonah of Scripture, on the left,
as he pursues “the highway” to Nublus, the ancient Shechem. [Shechem] Shiloh was one of the
earliest and most sacred of the Hebrew sanctuaries. The ark of the covenant, which had been kept
at Gilgal during the progress of the conquest, (Joshua 17:1) seq., was removed thence on the
subjugation of the country, and kept at Shiloh from the last days of Joshua to the time of Samuel.
(Joshua 18:10; Judges 18:31; 1 Samuel 4:3) It was here the Hebrew conqueror divided among the
tribes the portion of the west Jordan region which had not been already allotted. (Joshua 18:10;
19:51) In this distribution, or an earlier one, Shiloh fell within the limits of Ephraim. (Joshua 16:5)
The ungodly conduct of the sons of Eli occasioned the loss of the ark of the covenant, which had
been carried into battle against the Philistines, and Shiloh from that time sank into insignificance.
It stands forth in the Jewish history as a striking example of the divine indignation. (Jeremiah 7:12)
In the Authorized Version of the Bible Shiloh is once used as the name of a person, in a very
difficult passage, in (Genesis 49:10) “The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” Supposing
that the translation is correct, the meaning of the word is peaceable or pacific, and the allusion is
frankie
(Frankie)
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