A town in the hill country of EPHRAIM, north of Bethel, that was Israel's central sanctuary through the whole period of the Judges: here the tabernacle and the ark of the covenant stood (Joshua 18:1), and here Israel came up to worship 'Jehovah of armies' (1 Samuel 1:3). It is the setting of Hannah's vow and the boyhood of Samuel — and it falls when the ark is captured in battle (ch 4), a loss the prophet Jeremiah invokes as a warning to a later generation trusting in the Jerusalem temple: 'go to my place that was in Shiloh… and see what I did to it' (Jeremiah 7:12). ⚠️ And invoking it nearly got him killed: the temple sermon of Jeremiah 26 says only that God will make 'this house like Shiloh' (26:6), and the priests, prophets and people seize him on the spot and demand a death sentence, quoting the Shiloh line back at him as the charge (26:9). The argument works precisely because it is not theoretical — everyone in that courtyard knew there had been an earlier house of Jehovah, and knew there were ruins where it stood. ⚠️ Not to be confused with the disputed word 'Shiloh' of Genesis 49:10, a different Hebrew term.