ChristianAnswers.Net WebBible Encyclopedia generally understood
as denoting the Messiah, “the peaceful one,” as the word
signifies (Gen. 49:10) 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 (compare
Isa. 9:6). Shiloh, a place of rest, a city of Ephraim, “on the
north side of Bethel,” from which it is distant 10 miles (Judg.
21:19); the modern Seilun (the Arabic for Shiloh), a “mass of
shapeless ruins.” Here the tabernacle was set up after the
Conquest (Josh. 18:1-10), where it remained during all the
period of the judges till the ark fell into the hands of the
Philistines. “No spot in Central Palestine could be more
secluded than this early sanctuary, nothing more featureless
than the landscape around; so featur