Gilgal (in Ephraim, Swest of Shiloh): Khirbet 'Alyata
Gilgal in Smiths Bible Dictionary (a wheel; rolling). 1. 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, Jos 4:19,20 comp. Josh 4:3
where also they kept the first passover in the land of Canaan ch. Jos 5:10 It
was "in the east border of Jericho," apparently on a hillock or rising ground,
Jos 5:3 comp. Josh 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. ch. 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. 2Sa 19:40 A Gilgal is spoken of in Jos 15:7 in describing the
north border of Judah. In Jos 18:17 it is given as Geliloth. Gilgal near Jericho
is doubtless intended. 2. In 2Ki 2:1,2; 4:38 is named a Gilgal visited by Elijah
and Elisha. This could not be the Gilgal of the low plain of the Jordan, for the
prophets are said to have gone down to Bethel, which is 3000 feet above the
plain. It haa been identified with Jiljilia, about four miles from Bethel and
Shiloh respectively. 3. The "king of the nations of Gilgal" or rather perhaps
the "king of Goim at Gilgal," is mentioned in the catalogue of the chiefs
overthrown bv Joshua. Jos 12:23 Possibly the site of this place is marked by the
modern village Jiljulieh, about four miles south of Antipatris, which lies 16
miles northeast of Joppa. But another Gilgal, under the slightly-different form
of Kilkilieh, lies about two miles east of Antipatris.
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Deuteronomy 11:30 -
[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in
the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal,
beside the plains of Moreh?
2 Kings 2:1 -
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a
whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2 Kings 4:38 -
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and [there was] a dearth in the land; and the
sons of the prophets [were] sitting before him: and he said unto his servant,
Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
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Gilgal Scriptures
1 Samuel 10:8 -
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal;
and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, [and] to
sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I
come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
2 Samuel 19:15 -
So the king returned, and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal,
to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over Jordan.
1 Samuel 13:4 -
And all Israel heard say [that] Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines,
and [that] Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the
people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1 Samuel 15:33 -
And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be
childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
2 Samuel 19:40 -
Then the king went on to Gilgal,
and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king,
and also half the people of Israel.
1 Samuel 15:12 -
And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel,
saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone
about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
2 Kings 4:38 -
And Elisha came again to Gilgal:
and [there was] a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets [were]
sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and
seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.
Joshua 15:7 -
And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward,
looking toward Gilgal,
that [is] before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the
river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out
thereof were at Enrogel:
Joshua 12:23 -
The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal,
one;
Hosea 9:15 -
All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal:
for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out
of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters.
2 Kings 2:1 -
And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a
whirlwind, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
1 Samuel 7:16 -
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal,
and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
1 Samuel 13:8 -
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had
appointed]: but Samuel came not to Gilgal;
and the people were scattered from him.
Joshua 10:6 -
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal,
saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save
us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains
are gathered together against us.
Joshua 14:6 -
Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal:
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the
thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in
Kadeshbarnea.
Micah 6:5 -
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the
son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal;
that ye may know the righteousness of the LORD.
Judges 2:1 -
And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to
Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto
the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my
covenant with you.
1 Samuel 15:21 -
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which
should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
Hosea 4:15 -
Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, [yet] let not Judah offend; and come not
ye unto Gilgal,
neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, The LORD liveth.
Hosea 12:11 -
[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks
in Gilgal;
yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Deuteronomy 11:30 -
[Are] they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in
the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal,
beside the plains of Moreh?
1 Samuel 13:15 -
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto
Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people [that were] present with him,
about six hundred men.
Nehemiah 12:29 -
Also from the house of Gilgal,
and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them
villages round about Jerusalem.
Amos 4:4 -
Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply
transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, [and] your tithes after
three years:
Joshua 4:19 -
And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month, and
encamped in Gilgal,
in the east border of Jericho.
Joshua 5:9 -
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt
from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto
this day.
Joshua 5:10 -
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal,
and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains
of Jericho.
Judges 3:19 -
But he himself turned again from the quarries that [were] by Gilgal,
and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And
all that stood by him went out from him.
1 Samuel 13:12 -
Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal,
and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and
offered a burnt offering.
1 Samuel 13:7 -
And [some of] the Hebrews went over Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. As for
Saul, he [was] yet in Gilgal,
and all the people followed him trembling.