In this video listen to Joshua 18 read by David Alley, followed by comments and prayer.

In Joshua 18 the tabernacle is set up in Shiloh. This was the home of the tabernacle for about 400 years now until David took the ark to Jerusalem, and then shortly afterwards Solomon built the temple. Biblical Shiloh is called Khirbet Seilun about 42 kilometres north of Jerusalem. It was in the inheritance of Ephraim. The associates for Biblical Research have a dig at Shiloh which has been going now for many years.

They have concluded that there were three sites that the tabernacle was setup on and they moved between them, possibly to adjust for the season and prevailing wind etc. At this point 5 tribes have already received an inheritance. The tribes of Reuben (the oldest), Joseph being two, who was Jacob’s chosen firstborn, and Judah who seems t ...