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Psalm 78:60
so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,
58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
59When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,
60so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,
61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.
62He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
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The tent God placed among people becomes the tent he abandons, a sobering reversal after Israel provokes him with high places and engraved images.
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Joshua 18:1The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before …Joshua records Israel setting up the Tent of Meeting at Shiloh; the psalm recounts God abandoning the tent there.
Jeremiah 7:14therefore I will do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.Jeremiah names Shiloh as a warning to those trusting in God’s house; the psalm recounts God’s abandonment of that earlier dwelling.
1 Samuel 4:4–11So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, …Both passages name Shiloh: Samuel locates the ark of God there, while the psalm describes God abandoning its tent.
Jeremiah 26:6–9then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.’”Jeremiah threatens to make the house like Shiloh, the place whose abandonment the psalm recounts.
Judges 21:12They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young virgins who had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to …The shared thread is Shiloh itself: Judges names a camp there, while the psalm names the tent God abandoned.
1 Samuel 1:3This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Armies in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, …Samuel describes worship and sacrifice to God at Shiloh; the psalm recounts God abandoning the tent at that worship site.
Psalm 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell …Both speak of God dwelling among people, though Psalm 68 describes his dwelling and Psalm 78 recounts his departure.
Jeremiah 7:12–14“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.Both identify Shiloh as a place God chose for his presence and then subjected to judgment because of Israel’s wickedness.
Exodus 26:36“You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.Exodus describes a screen for the Tent; the psalm names the tent God abandoned at Shiloh.
Joshua 19:51These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, …Joshua records land distributed before God at Shiloh’s Tent of Meeting; the psalm recounts God abandoning the tent there.
1 Samuel 6:21They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back the LORD’s ark. Come down and bring it up to yourselves.”The connection is limited: Samuel concerns the return and transfer of God’s ark, while the psalm concerns his abandonment of Shiloh’s tent.
1 Chronicles 22:1Then David said, “This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel.”Both name a dwelling associated with God: David identifies God’s house, while the psalm names the tent he abandoned.
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These words recount God’s judgment at Shiloh; they do not establish that God has abandoned you. The tent he gave Israel offered no shelter from his judgment against idolatry.
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