fate of Shiloh would engulf them.29 Shiloh had been wiped out by the Philistines. It was probably already little more than an archaeological site in Jeremiah’s day. However, far from publicly leading the people in repentance and in prayer to Yahweh, pleading with him to stay with them, these men shrug their shoulders at Yahweh’s presumed departure and promptly turn to alternative sources of help—foreign, pagan deities that should have turned their stomachs rather than inspired their supplication.