Jos 18:1 | TNotes | STEP | 18:1 Israel had been encamped at Gilgal in the Jordan Valley (14:6 ). Shiloh was about twenty miles north of Jerusalem, in the hill country of Ephraim. By setting up the Tabernacle there, Joshua made Shiloh Israel’s religious and political center. The Tabernacle remained at Shiloh until the Philistines captured the Ark (1 Sam 4:10-11 ).

c1 Sam 4:10-11►

‏ Joshua 18:1

18:1 ^a Israel had been encamped at Gilgal in the Jordan Valley (14:6 ^b). Shiloh was about twenty miles north of Jerusalem, in the hill country of Ephraim. By setting up the Tabernacle there, Joshua made Shiloh Israel’s religious and political center. The Tabernacle remained at Shiloh until the Philistines captured the Ark (1 Sam 4:10-11 ^c).