Gilgal is located on the east side of Jericho (Joshua 4:19-20). It is significant that the Books of Kings treat it as a place of holiness, suggesting that stone circles still had a positive religious value at the time the source text of the passages in question was written, rather than having been condemned as heathen by religious reforms. Gilgalim ("circles") were constructed in Canaan from very early times; the Bible mentions several places called Gilgal which were named after gilgalim in their vicinity. One set of monumental stones was set up in the river and one set of stones was set up on the other side in Gilgal. Gilgal is significant in the Bible as serving as a place of memorial for the Israelites, to remind them of what God had done. Der wichtigste Ort ist das im → Jordantal östlich von → Jericho gelegene Gilgal, das in der biblischen Überlieferung die erste Station der … The most significant city (region) named Gilgal is the first place the children of Israel camped after crossing the Jordan River under Joshua (Joshua 4:19 - 20). The text states that Elijah and Elisha came from Gilgal to Bethel, and then onward to Jericho and to the Jordan,[13] suggesting that the place was in the vicinity of Bethel, and far from Joshua's Gilgal near Jericho. Again it is possible for this to be yet another "circle of standing stones" [12] (or the same one as mentioned in relation to Elijah and Elisha, as Bethel is on the circuit with Gilgal, and other assumed locations show Gilgal to be far further away than the other two locations), and it is significant that it is treated as a holy place by the biblical text, rather than as a heathen one. Another opinion is that it is not different from the Book of Joshua, as it locates it near Bethel as does the Books of Chronicles. (Joshua 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. Y fue un lugar de decisión. In the Books of Kings, "Gilgal" is mentioned as the home of a company of prophets. In the Bible, Gilgal is stamped with the meaning it took on in the first major stories about it. Im Buch Josua wird Gilgal in 4,19–20 EU als erste Lagerstatt der Israeliten nach dem Einzug in das gelobte Land erwähnt. Wycliffe Bible (1395) and `thei eten of the fruytis of the lond `in the tothir day, therf looues, and potage of the same yeer, `ether cornys seengid and frotid in the hond. Meta. The use of low slopes is in contrast to Canaanite practice, which placed sanctuaries "on every lofty hill" (2 Kings 17:10). Fue en Gilgal donde el pueblo se compromete, celebran la Pascua, y Dios les da la estrategia para vencer lo invencible. "Gilgal" - discussed most often in the books of Joshua (13), Samuel-1 (12) and Hosea (3). Die byzantinische Tradition verortet dieses Gilgal allerdings zwei Kilometer nordöstlich von Jericho. (Gilgal) Isr'lites 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) comp. "[4], Some scholars speculate that the circle of 12 stones was the (unnamed) religious sanctuary that was condemned in Amos 4:4 and 5:5 and Hosea 4:15. '"(Hosea 9:15). Several cities named Gilgal may have existed in Canaan after the Israelites entered the Promised Land. The term gilgal is thought by modern archaeologists to refer to a type of structure, which may then receive additional names, for example "the gilgal by the terebinths of Moreh" (Deuteronomy 11:30) or "the gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho" (Joshua 4:19). Bible Language statistics links. Oktober 2019 um 14:07 Uhr bearbeitet. There, they erected 12 stones as a memorial to the miraculous stopping of the river when they crossed. According to Joshua 4:19, Gilgal is a location "on the eastern border of Jericho" where the Israelites encamped immediately after crossing the Jordan River. Gilgal » Place of the first encampment of the israelites west of the jordan river » Agag, king of the amalekites, slain at, by samuel. They came from the middle of the Jordan River. In David Noel Freedman, ed., In the footsteps of ancient Israelite kings, http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/0024-D-61229-00.html, Ancient underground quarry, Jordan Valley, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gilgal&oldid=1000866442, Articles containing Koinē Greek-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2013, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 17 January 2021, at 03:18. 1. These sites are hypothesized to be ritual sites where the early Israelites celebrated holidays together, until worship was centralized. Once they got into the land, they had to spread out so they could camp. GILGAL. 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.