In referring to "the place God chooses, to put his name for His dwelling place," and 11 never mention the name of the place. According to the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary, the place was "successively Mizpeh, Shiloh, and especially Jerusalem." This commentary suggests that this studied silence was maintained partly to prevent the Canaanites within whose territories it lay to concentrate their forces to frustrate all hopes of obtaining it, and partly to prevent the desire of possessing a place of such importance from becoming a cause of strife or rivalry amongst the Hebrew tribes.