Verse 60
60. He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh Read the history, 1 Samuel 4:0. The tabernacle had been in Shiloh for three hundred years, from the time of Joshua. Joshua 18:1. It was, after the removal of the ark, taken to Nob, (1 Samuel 21:1-6;) thence, after the death of Samuel, to Gibeon, (1 Chronicles 1:3-4;) whence it was transferred by Solomon to the temple. 1Ki 8:4 ; 2 Chronicles 5:5. The ark was returned by the Philistines to Bethshemesh, thence to Kirjath, in Judah, and thence to Zion by David. 2 Samuel 6:0. Neither ark nor tabernacle ever returned to Shiloh a blow from which the tribe of Ephraim never recovered.
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