Shiloh (biblical city) ||This article needs additional citations
for verification. (August 2009)| Shiloh was an ancient city
mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Its site is at modern Khirbet
Seilun, south of ancient Tirzah and 10 miles (16 km) north of
the Israeli settlement of Beth El in the West Bank. The Biblical
Period  The site of ancient Shiloh, a city in the Ephraim hill-
country, was the religious capital of Israel for 300 years
before Jerusalem. Mentioned in the time of the Book of Joshua
and Judges, it is north of Beth-El, east of the Beth El–Shechem
highway and south of Lebonah in the hill-country of Ephraim
(Judg. 21:19). Shiloh has been identified unambiguously with
Khirbet Seilun by American philologist E. Robinson in 1838. The
location had been established long before by the Roman writer
Eusebius and by Nestorius ha-Parhi. Shiloh is mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible as an assembly place for the people of Israel. The
"whole congregation of Israel assembled...and set up the
tabernacle of the congregation..