They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
"There is a certain rightness and a certain wrongness about what Israel does. They justifiably requite Jabesh-gilead with unjustifiable severity (Judges 21:5; Judges 21:10). They stand consistently upon their wife-oath (Judges 21:7; Judges 21:16-18) but trample happily upon the rights of the Shiloh girls and their families (Judges 21:19-22). It is a mix of consistency and confusion. . . .