Judges 21:19
Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah. Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
The location given is precise, placing Shiloh to the north of Bethel, and the yearly feast of the Lord kept there shows that Shiloh was a place of regular worship closely connected with Bethel. That yearly feast included solemn dances as part of its observance. By that time of apostasy the celebration had become so corrupt that worship at the tabernacle was like pagan orgiastic rites.
The verse stands in Judges 17-21, which records events from the early part of the judges period though placed at the end of the book, whose main narrative ends with chapter 16. Within that closing section it belongs to the account of the crime at Gibeah and the resulting crisis over Benjamin, one of the book's two concluding episodes. That passage is a pitiful record of backsliding followed by disgrace and punishment, in which conventional hospitality was valued above the virtue of women and loyalty to a tribe above doing justice, a pattern still seen today.
The backsliding it records gives no excuse or license to sin with impunity. The men God used to deliver Israel at that time are not held up as examples to imitate, because God worked with the best material available and it was sometimes crude and rough, as with Samson.