Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

Now the tabernacle was to be taken from Gilgal to its
permanent location, Shiloh, a little town in Ephraim near the center
of the land, and easy for all the tribes to reach. A part of the country
in this area had been thoroughly conquered, so the worshipers would
not be attacked. "Now the whole congregation of the children of
Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of
meeting there."
The ark remained at Shiloh for three hundred years until,
because of the sins of Eli's family, it was captured by the Philistines.
Shiloh Becomes a Warning
The sanctuary service was finally transferred to the temple at
Jerusalem, and Shiloh fell into ruins. Many years later God used
Shiloh's fate as a warning to Jerusalem. "Go now to My place which
was in Shiloh," the Lord declared by Jeremiah, "where I set My
name at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness
of My people Israel. ... Therefore I will do to the house which is
called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I
gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh." (Jeremiah
7:12, 14).
"When they had made an end of dividing the land," Joshua
presented his claim. He did not ask for a large area, but only a single
city, Timnath-serah, "the portion that remains." The conqueror,
instead of being the first to take the spoils of conquest for himself,
waited to make his claim until the humblest of his people had been
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