Jeremiah 7:12

Shiloh; a place that did belong to the tribe of Ephraim, Psalms 78:60, compare Psalms 78:67; the situation whereof see Judges 21:19; and called God's house, as the temple is, 1 Samuel 1:3,7: he sends them hither for an example, which had the same privileges and holiness with the temple; not to go thither locally, but to cast their thoughts back, and consider of it, that they might know that God's presence is not tied to places, Acts 7:48. Where I set my name at the first; where I did at first give you the token and pledges of my presence among you, when you first entered into the pleasant land, noting the antiquity of Shiloh before the temple. What I did to it, i.e. he utterly forsook it; he did not only deliver up his people into the Philistines hands, but the ark also, the token of his presence, which never returned to Shiloh more; and afterwards delivered the ten tribes, wherein Shiloh was situate, into captivity to the Assyrian; see Jeremiah 7:14,15; wherein he upbraids them for their folly ill thinking that the ark or altar in the temple should any more privilege them than it did Shiloh. For the wickedness of my people; he gives them the reason of it in these words, the wickedness of his people, and chiefly the priests, Hophni and Phinehas, Eli's sons, 1 Samuel 2:12, &c.; and why should they think to escape, who did equal, if not exceed them?