18Then all the assembly of the sons of Israel were congregated at Shiʹloh,+ and they proceeded to locate the tent of meeting there,+ as the land was now subdued before them.+
3 When the people came to the camp the older men* of Israel began to say: “Why did Jehovah defeat us today before the Phi·lisʹtines?+ Let us take to ourselves from Shiʹloh the ark of Jehovah’s covenant,+ that it may come into our midst and may save us from the palm of our enemies.”
29 And it came about at that particular time that Jer·o·boʹam himself went out from Jerusalem, and A·hiʹjah+ the Shiʹlo·nite+ the prophet got to find him on the road, and [A·hiʹjah]* was covering himself with a new garment; and the two of them were by themselves in the field.
12 “‘However, GO, now, to my place that was in Shiʹloh,+ where I caused my name to reside at first,+ and see what I did to it because of the badness of my people Israel.+