| Gil'gal. (a wheel; rolling). The site of the first camp of the Israelites on the west of the Jordan, the place at which they passed the first night after crossing the river, and where the twelve stones were set up which had been taken from the bed of the stream, Joshua 4:19-20, compare Jos 4:3, where also they kept the first Passover in the land of Canaan, Jos 5:10. It was "in the east border of Jericho," apparently on a hillock or rising ground, Jos 5:3, compare Jos 5:9, in the Arboth-Jericho (Authorized Version "the plains"), that is, the hot depressed district of the Ghor which lay between the town and the Jordan. Jos 5:10. Here Samuel was judge, and Saul was made king. We again have a glimpse of it, some sixty years later, in the history of David's return to Jerusalem. 2 Samuel 19:40. A Gilgal is spoken of in Joshua 15:7 in describing the north border of Judah. In Jos 18:17, it is given as Geliloth. Gilgal near Jericho is doubtless intended. Smith's Bible Dictionary or |
Occurences In Authorized Version
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1 Samuel 7:16, 1Sa 10:8, 1Sa 11:14, 1Sa 11:15, 1Sa 13:4, 1Sa 13:7, 1Sa 13:8, 1Sa 13:12, 1Sa 13:15, 1Sa 15:12, 1Sa 15:21, 1Sa 15:33,