Division of the Rest of the Land

18 The whole assembly of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh^(A) and set up the tent of meeting^(B) there. The country was brought under their control,

⁵¹ These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing^(A) the land.^(B)

⁶ then I will make this house like Shiloh^(A) and this city a curse^[a](B) among all the nations of the earth.’”

³ Year after year^(A) this man went up from his town to worship^(B) and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh,^(C) where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli,^(D) were priests of the Lord.

² at Shiloh^(A) in Canaan and said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns^(B) to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.”^(C)

¹² “‘Go now to the place in Shiloh^(A) where I first made a dwelling^(B) for my Name,^(C) and see what I did^(D) to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. ¹³ While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke^(E) to you again and again,^(F) but you did not listen;^(G) I called^(H) you, but you did not answer.^{(I) 14} Therefore, what I did to Shiloh^(J) I will now do to the house that bears my Name,^(K) the temple^(L) you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors.

²⁴ After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,^[a](A) an ephah^[b] of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh.

³¹ They continued to use the idol Micah had made,^(A) all the time the house of God^(B) was in Shiloh.^(C)

⁹ So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh^(A) in Canaan to return to Gilead,^(B) their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses.