Biblical places
Gilgal
Where Israel made their first camp in Canaan after crossing the Jordan, setting up a memorial of twelve stones and observing circumcision and Passover. Believed to lie near Jericho, though scholars disagree considerably over which of several candidate tells is the actual site.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Disputed
- Khirbet el-Mefjir (Khirbet al-Mafjar), among several candidate sites
- 31.8825, 35.4597
Of OpenBible's six candidates, Khirbet el-Mefjir is the leading one at 60% confidence, but it is not conclusive; several tell candidates are listed.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
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?
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.
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 7:16
And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
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.
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.
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.
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.