Gilgal, Israel: Place Joshua, Samuel, Saul, Tabernacle, Altar, 12 Stone Monument, Footprint, Located

Historical Background
1. The late Professor Adam Zertal (University of Haifa) did much research on the biblical location of Gilgal and discovered that it’s possible it wasn’t necessarily a specific location, but a common name for a camp or religious site in its early period.

2. In Zertal’s research, he discovered 5 potential sites where the Israelites could have camped after crossing the Jordan into the Promised Land. Each place is uniquely shaped like a human right footprint. This is likely attributed to the promise given to them in Deuteronomy 11:24: Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea.

3. Joshua 4:19, places Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho: Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho. The place of Tel Gilgal (modern-day Gilgal) doesn’t seem to fit the qualifications found in Joshua 4:19.

4. If Zertal’s claims are true, then it’s possible Tel Gilgal (located at modern Gilgal) was the more permanent Gilgal that is referred to 35 times in Scripture, and the place on the eastern edge of Jericho was a temporary place where the Israelites camped. This seems reasonable as there are no remains of a permanent city on the eastern edge of Jericho. 5. Tel Gilgal became a central meeting place throughout the rest of the Old Testament and appears to have been a small city.

Places of Interest
1. Tel Gilgal
2. Tower
3. Heel part of the footprint shape of Tel Gilgal
4. Center part of the footprint shape of Tel Gilgal
5. Tabernacle
6. 12 Stone Monument (it appears it was moved from Camp Gilgal to Tel Gilgal as a permanent monument at a later date)
7. Altar
8. Toe part of the footprint shape of Tel Gilgal
9. Modern Gilgal
10. Jericho
11. Jordan River
12. Camp Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho

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