Joshua 9:6

unto the camp at Gilgal Where was this Gilgal? (i) According to some it was the Gilgal, of which we have already heard (Joshua 5:10), in the Jordan valley, whither Joshua had returned after his successful expedition against Ai, in order thence to undertake fresh enterprises, and where the women, children, and property were left under a sufficient guard, while he was absent with the host (ii) Others think it is impossible to suppose that Joshua marched back from Shechem to the banks of Jordan (Joshua 9:6; Joshua 10:6-7; Joshua 10:9), and, again, that he did so a second time, after the battles in the north to make the final apportionment of the land among the people, and that the spot is that alluded to in Deuteronomy 11:30, as being situated "beside the oaks of Moreh," i.e. near the site of Abraham's first altar (Genesis 12:6-7). If this is so, it would correspond with the modern Jilgiliah, a few miles from Bethel.

a far country Far beyond the boundaries of Palestine.