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Shiloh (Template:Lang-he) is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a city and as denoting a person.

Shiloh is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as an assembly place for the people of Israel where there was a sanctuary containing the ark of the covenant until it was taken by the Philistines. According to the Book of Joshua 18:1, it was at Shiloh that the "whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled...and set up the tabernacle of the congregation...", being the tent which housed the ark. Later on, the portable tent seems to have been enclosed within a compound or replaced with a standing structure with "doors" (1 Samuel 3:15) a precursor to the Temple, that survived until the time of Samuel.

At Shiloh Samuel was raised by the priest Eli and later himself served as priest there. When the Israelites were defeated at the battle of Aphek, their Philistine foes (who already had captured the ark of the covenant) apparently destroyed the shrine (1 Samuel 4).

Despite the shameful defeat, Shiloh was revived, and an important prophet lived there - Ahijah HaShiloni.

The site of Shiloh is usually identified as modern Seilun, about eight miles north of Bethel. There is a tel and many impressive remains from the Caananite and Israelite eras, and till as late as the 8th century. During the following 12 centuries Shiloh is only noted as a station on sojourners' routes, usually having only its religious-historical significance to offer. Only in 1978 did it become residential again, as an eclectic group of Jews accompanying an archeological expedition at the ancient site rendered their tent-camp into the seed of a village.

In 1979 Israel claimed the village as an Israeli settlement, and named it "Shilo". To read more on Shilo the Israeli settlement, see Shilo (town).

In Aug. - Sept. 2006 archeological excavations were carried out adjacent to Shiloh’s tel. Findings of great significance were found: elaborate mosaics, testimony of settlement in the Mamluk era and an unprecedented mosaic inscription in Greek referring to the site as the ”village of Shiloh” – a rare occurrence of an archeological site identifying itself.

• More Archeology at Tel Shiloh

The term "Shiloh" occurs also in Gen. 49:10 in a phrase translated in the KJV as "(..) until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." This has led to one interpretation that "Shiloh" also refers to a person and is by Christians generally understood as denoting the Messiah, "the peaceful one," as the word signifies.

The Vulgate Version translates the word, "he who is to be sent," in allusion to the Messiah; the Revised Version, margin, "till he come to Shiloh;" and the LXX., "until that which is his shall come to Shiloh." It is most simple and natural to render the expression, as in the Authorized Version, "till Shiloh come," interpreting it as a proper name (comp. Isa. 9:6).

According to others this reading of Genesis 49:10 is somewhat problematical, but is the one taken, for example, by Bishop Latimer in his Lincolnshire Sermon for the "Third Sunday in Advent" (1552) and more recently by the followers of Joanna Southcott. Some Christians believe Gen. 49:10 to be a prophecy for Jesus while some Muslims believe it is a prophecy for Muhammad.

Part of this text is taken from Easton's Bible Dictionary

^[1]"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be." In this prophecy, Jacob is referring to Jesus Christ (Shiloh) as the substitutionary sacrifice that would replace the sacrifices offered by the priests in a place called Shiloh. And unto Him (Christ) would "...the gathering of the people be." And He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease^[2].

^[3] 7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

On 25 December 1956, the prophecy of Jacob, in Genesis 49:10 was finally fulfilled. "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be. Although the messiah / Christ came physically and confirm the covenant with many, (Jews and gentiles). The sceptre, is a symbol for the priesthood; shall not be depart (removed) from the House of Judah, until, Christ’s second visitation as Shiloh the morning star."

"I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star"^[4]

“Shiloh, Shiloh, Shiloh!” Exclaimed Ernest Paul Mwazha

The eastern star became clearly visible in broad daylight. More strangely was that the star had come out breaking astrological pattern that is common with emergence of the star. This occurrence in broad daylight was God’s way of showing His immerse power over all creation. He had the power to determine sequences, reverse routine of nature and convey a message to believers in through a real life plain for all to see. Almost immediately before they could reach where I was, the Morning Star made a brilliant arc as it retreated into the blossom of the eastern horizon^[5]....And I will give him the morning star,^[6].

• The Divine Commission of Paul Mwazha of Africa, p 83-85

• Isaiah 11:11

• Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzodeck's Insight into Shiloh (a Kabbalist perspective)
• Shiloh in the Jewish Encyclopedia