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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River Joshua 4:19

On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River Joshua 9:6

They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River Joshua 10:6, 43

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.” / Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River Joshua 14:6

Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: A School of the Prophets At 2 Kings 4:38–40

When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.” / One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. / And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Circumcision Renewed At Joshua 5:2–9

At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.” / So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. / Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Passover Kept At Joshua 5:10, 11

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover. / The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Prophecies Concerning Hosea 4:15

Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear on oath, ‘As surely as the LORD lives!’

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Prophecies Concerning Hosea 9:15

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Prophecies Concerning Hosea 12:11

Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Prophecies Concerning Amos 4:4

“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Prophecies Concerning Amos 5:5

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

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Gilgal: Place of the First Encampment of the Israelites West of the Jordan River: Quarries At Judges 3:19

But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.

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