Gilgal 1

Where it is

6 locations have been proposed, 46 km apart at the extremes. This atlas draws the first; the others are recorded here because the disagreement is real and is not ours to settle.

1. Khirbet el Mefjir31.8819, 35.4600
2. Bedhat esh Sha’ab32.1599, 35.5155
3. El ’Unuq32.2493, 35.3707
4. Tell el Jurn31.8739, 35.4588
5. Suwwanet eth Thaniya31.8816, 35.4557
6. Khirbet en Nitleh31.8503, 35.4875

Where Scripture names it

33 verses in 7 books.

Where this atlas draws it

26 pins across 26 chapters — this atlas’s own editorial choice, not a claim about the text.

• Gilgalmatched decided — 1 Samuel 11:14-15 — "Then Samuel said to the people, 'Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.' So all the people went to Gilgal and confirmed Saul as king in the presence of the LORD." — continued without a scene break at 12:2, "Now here is the king walking before you."
• Gilgal / Plains of Jerichomatched by the verses it appears in