srael
only. Jacob points, at the close, to Shiloh's just and peaceful
dominion; but Balaam, who has to do with the enraged and obstinate
enemies of Israel, points out, from among the effects produced by the
star and sceptre, only the victorious might, and destructive power
which these will display in the conflict with the enemies of Israel.

In the blessing of Moses, Deut. xxxii. 7, it is said of Judah: "Hear,
Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people; with his hands
he fights for himself, and be Thou an help to him from his enemies."
Even the remarkable brevity of this utterance points back to the
blessing of Jacob. With this brevity, the length of the blessing upon
Levi, who had been treated too summarily by Jacob, forms a striking
contrast. In the case of Reuben also, the attempt to pour oil into the
wounds then inflicted is visible. The whole announcement is based upon
the supposition that Judah is the fore-champion of Israel; and this
supposition refers us back to Gen. xlix. This appears especially in the
words, "Bring him to his people," on which light is thrown only by Gen.
xlix. It is for his people that Judah engages in foreign wars, and the
Lord, fulfilling the words, "From the prey, my son, thou goest up,"
brings him safely to his people.[16]

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There can be no doubt that in Shiloh, as the name of a place,
there is a reference to Gen. xlix. 10. They who rightly denied that
Shiloh could, in that passage, be understood as the name of the place,
could, nevertheless, not feel satisfied as long as they allowed a
twofold Shiloh to exist unconnected with each other. The agreement in
the very rare and peculiar form, which nowhere else occurs, cannot well
be a matter of accident.

In the Pentateuch, Shiloh does not occur at all as the name of a place.
In the passage where Shiloh is first mentioned--in Josh. xvi.
6--another name is beside it, and prefixed to it. According to that
passage, the former name was Taanah. (They who are of opinion that this
place was different from Shiloh, can find no support from the authority
of _Eusebius_; it is not said Taanah by Shiloh, but Taanath-Shiloh.)
After that place had become the seat of the Sanctuary, the holy name
_Shiloh_ took the place of the former natural one. The reason why this
name was given to it is indicated in Josh. xviii. 1: "And the whole
congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh,
and set up the tabernacle of the