The term, “Shiloh”, is first used to refer to the Messiah in Genesis 49:10. The name means, “he to whom it belongs.” The entire reason that the Lord brought the Assyrians to destroy the kingdom of Israel was because they had rejected the Lord, ’For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God…And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant’ (2 Kings 17:7,15). It is apparent that ‘the waters of Shiloah that go softly’ represent the Lord and his kindness. These had been rejected in favor of two wicked kings, Rezin and Pekah (Remaliah’s son).