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The Danes have copper (hillings, worth about one-fourth 

 of a fan hint; Iterling. See Coix. 



SHILLUK, in Gcngraphy, a town of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Sennaar, on the E. fide of the river Bahr-el- 

 Abiad, and not far removed from it. This town is built 

 of clay, and its iniiabitants are idolaters. They have no 

 other clothing than bands of long grafs, which they pafs 

 round the waill and between the thighs. They arc all 

 black, and thole of both fexes (have their heads. The 

 people of Shilhik have the dominion of the river, and take 

 toll of all paffengers, in fuch articles of traffic as pafs 

 among them. Thefe people, who adame importance from 

 their command of the river, are reprefented as hofpitable 

 to thofe who come among them in a peaceable manner, 

 and as never betraying thofe to whom they have once avow- 

 ed friendlhip ; 50 miles W. of Sennaar. 



SHILOH, in Scripture Crilicifm, a term that occurs 

 in Jacob's celebrated prophecy concerning the Mefiiah 

 (Gen. xlix. 10.) ; concerning the etymology and applica- 

 tion of which, biblical commentators have differed in opi- 

 nion. " The fceptre fhall not depart from Judah, and a 

 law-giver from between his feet ; till Sh'iloh come ; and to 

 him flaall the gathering of the people be." The word 

 Shiloh, fays one writer (Mr. Mann), is a modern reading ; 

 unknown in any other part of the fcripturc, or any of the 

 old commentators ; coined by the Jewifh correftors of the 

 bible into H"?'^*) a word of no fignification ; whereas the 

 LXX read l'7^, that is, 1^7 "Iti^J^i he, to whom it is; 

 he, to whom it, viz. the fceptre, belongs ; J aroxwlzi ; he 

 for whom it is referved, as it is in the original belt edition 

 of the LXX verfion, as Jiillin Martyr long ago affirmed, 

 (Dial, cum Trypli.), and as it now llands in the Alexan- 

 drian MS. And if this be the true meaning, it plainly re- 

 fers to the king of the Jews ; for whom the fceptre was 

 referved, and to whom the people were to be gathered. 

 Mr. Ainfworth and iome otliers render Shiloh the profperor 

 or fafe-maker ; others the peace-maker, from ri'7w'' > all 

 which agree to the fame perfon. But the moll probable 

 interpretation, as the author of Mordecai's Letters, (Mr. 

 Taylor,) apprehends, is given us by the very learned and 

 judicious Dr. Hunt, profelfor of Arabic at Oxford. He 

 underllands the true etymology of the word Shiloh to re- 

 main in the Arabic X^il'' Jhcla, liberavit, fubduxit ab 

 anguftia et exitio. According to this etymology, Shiloh 

 will be the deliverer from diilrefs and dellruilion ; a title, 

 whicli jullly belongs to Jefus Clirill, the Lord of life, and 

 Saviour of the world. If it fliould be objcfted to this 

 etymology, that the yoj/ (') is wanting between ihe /chin 

 and the lamed, he obfervcs, that in the Samaritan copy 

 of Genefis, xlix. 10. tlie word is written without the 

 jod, as it i-i likevvife in one of the mod ancient He- 

 brew MSS. which Dr. Kennicot has conlulted on this 

 text. Some moderns have pretended, in order to evade 

 the prophetic force of this text, that the fceptre departed 

 from Judah before tlie advent of Chrill, by its falling into 

 the hands of foreigners, which objection is fufficiently an- 

 fwered by Cunaeus (De Republ. Heb. 1. 50. c. 9.) and 

 others: who have (hewn, tiiat tlie text only regards the 

 contimiance of the Jewilh (late; and that Judea, as fepa- 

 rated from Ifrael, fhouid remain a kingdom till the coming 

 of the Mediah. On tlie other hand, Abravanel and others 

 fuppofe, tiiat the Iceptre is not yet departed from Ifr>icl; 

 and Meralfeh Ben ilrael allege",, that it is ftill in the hands 

 of the tribe of Judah. The ancients undoubtedly under- 

 ftood tliis text of the Mediah. The Ciialdce Paraphrad 

 fays, " He that hath dominion rtiall not be taken away from 

 Judah, nor a fcribe from his children's children, until the 



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time when Chrift fliall come, whofe the dominion is ; and 

 him diall the people (or nations) obey." And the Jerufa- 

 lem Targum fays, " ICings diall not ceafc from the houfe of 

 Judah, nor dodors that teach the law from his children's 

 children, until the time that Chrill do com.e, whofc kmgdom 

 is ; and all the kings of the earth fhall be fubjeft unto him ;" 

 fo that both the Targums confine the fcnfe to this ; that the 

 peoples (/. e. both Jews and Gentiles) {hould gather unto 

 and obey Chrift : or, in other words, that the perfon here 

 fpoken of fhouid be .the prince that fliould reign over all ; 

 57;-eiTjo<ix £«;:, as the LXX fay in this place ; and that this 

 fliould happen before Judah fhouid ccafe to be a kingdom : 

 which is verified by fa£l". Ben Mordecai's Letters, Letter iv. 



Shiloh, or Silo, in y/ncicnt Geography, a famous city of 

 Ephraim (Jofh. xviii. xix.xxi.), 12 miles diftant from She- 

 chem or Sichem, according to Eufebius, or 10 miles accord- 

 ing to Jerom, and fituated, according to both, in Acraba- 

 tene. In Jerom's time this city was ruined, nothing re- 

 maining but the foundation of the altar of burnt offerings, 

 which had been erefted when the tabernacle was there. At 

 Shiloh, Jodiua adembled the people to make the fecond dif- 

 tribution of the land of promife. (Jofh. xviii. i, 2, 3.) 

 Here the tabernacle of the Lord was fet up, when tiie peo- 

 ple vTere fettled in the country. (Jodi. xix. ji.) The ark 

 and the tabernacle of the Lord continued at Sliiloh, from 

 A.M. 2560, when it was fet up by JcHiua, to A.M. 2888, 

 B.C. 1 1 16, when it was taken by the Philillines, under the 

 adminillration of the high-prielt Eli. At Shiloh Samuel 

 began to prophefy. (i Sam. iv. 4.) Here the prophet 

 Abijah dwelt, (i Kings, xiv. 2.) .Teremiah foretold that 

 the temple of .Icrulalem fliould be reduced to the fame con- 

 dition as Shiloli was. (Jcr. vii. 12. 14. xxvi. 6. 9.) After 

 the return of the ark out of the country of the Philillines, 

 inllead of returning it to Shiloh, it was taken to Kirjath- 

 jearim. (1 Sam. vi. 21.) Mr. Roland conjedtures, that 

 from the name Shiloh, Paufanias (1. vi. c. 24.) took occa- 

 fion to fay, that Silcnus, the companion of Bacchus, was 

 buried in Palelline. Benjamin of Tudela affirms, that the 

 tomb of Samuel was to be feen here. 



SHIM, in y/griciillure, a tool of the tillage kind, ufed 

 in breaking dov/n and reducing the more llifl and heavy 

 fort j of land, as well as cutting up and clcaritii» them from 

 weeds. They are made in different forms and conllrudtions, 

 to fuit dilferent purpofcs. In the Hertford Agricultural 

 Survey by the Board of Agriculture, the writer remarks, 

 that a tool of this kind is in ule by Mr. Calvert, of Albury, 

 which differs from thofe ufually employed, iu which the 

 cutting-iron or plate, which for the work it is adapted for, 

 as that of cutting up weeds on two-bout or four-furrow 

 Edex ridges, or of cleaning land without ploughing or 

 burying tiic foil, is a fmall legment of a large circle. It 

 difpatches a ridge at a time, and is an implement that per- 

 forms its bufincfs well, and which delerves the notice ol the 

 tillaire-farmer in other places. It is readily altered fur flat 

 work, and i; faid to be had recourle to by other fanners with 

 fnccefs in the fame dillriiit. 



And an ufeful tool of this fort has alfo been recom- 

 mended by Mr. Ycuing, in his Annals, the hint of which he 

 took from the Berkfliire one, and to which the beam and 

 block is capable of being applied. In a wide interval, the 

 three fhares may be worked on a level. Between the rows 

 of cabbages, after earthing up, the two external (hares may 

 be fet to cut the weeds th;:t are apt to rife on the lides of 

 the ridges, without dillurbing too much earth, and the 

 centre (hare funk to fcrape the bottom of the furro\<'. The 

 centre one may alio be worked alone, between narrow rows. 

 In forging the fhares of all fliims, he has well obfervcd, that 



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