Lexicon :: Strong's H1537 - gilgāl

Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month and encamped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

So the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not [fn]abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all [five of] the kings of the Amorites who live in the hill country have assembled against us.”

Then [fn]Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.

Then the [tribe of the] sons of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the word which the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadesh-barnea.

Now the [fn]Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you to the land which I swore [to give] to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there restore the kingdom.”

Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul assembled and counted the people who were still with him, [only] about six hundred [fighting] men.

Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; and all the people of Judah and also half the people of Israel accompanied the king.

When the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

Elisha came back to Gilgal during a famine in the land. The sons of the prophets were sitting before him, and he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook stew for the sons of the prophets.”

Though you, Israel, play the prostitute [by worshiping idols],

Do not let Judah become guilty [of the same thing];

And do not go to Gilgal [where idols are worshiped],

Or go up to [fn]Beth-aven (House of Wickedness),

Nor swear [oaths in idolatrous worship, saying],

“As the LORD lives!”

All their wickedness [says the LORD] is focused in Gilgal;

Indeed, I came to hate them there!

Because of the wickedness of their [idolatrous] practices

I will drive them out of My house (the land of Israel)!

I will love them no longer;

All their princes are rebels.

Is there wickedness (idolatry) in Gilead?

Surely the people there are worthless.

In Gilgal [they defy Me when] they sacrifice bulls,

Yes, [after My judgment] their [pagan] altars are like the stone heaps

In the furrows of the fields.

“Come to Bethel [where the golden calf is] and transgress;

In Gilgal [where idols are worshiped] multiply transgression;

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

Your tithes every three days!

“But do not resort to Bethel [to worship the golden calf]

Nor enter [idolatrous] Gilgal,

Nor cross over to Beersheba [and its idols];

For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity and exile,

And Bethel will come to nothing.

“My people, remember now

What Balak king of Moab devised [with his evil plan against Israel]

And what Balaam the son of Beor answered him [turning the curse into blessing for Israel],

[Remember what the LORD did for you] from [fn]Shittim to Gilgal,

So that you may know the righteous and saving acts [displaying the power] of the LORD.”