SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:19
Y el pueblo subió del Jordán el diez del mes primero, y asentaron el campamento en Gilgal, al lado oriental de Jericó.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 4:19
Verse 19. On the tenth day of the first month] As the Israelites left Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month, A.M. 2513, (see Exod. xiv. 1-31,) and they entered into Canaan the tenth of the first month, A.M. 2553, it is evident that forty years, wanting five days, had elapsed from the time of their exodus from Egypt to their entrance into the promised inheritance. Encamped in Gilgal] That is, in the place that was afterwards called Gilgal, see chap. v. 9; for here the name is given it by anticipation. In Hebrew, lg gal signifies to roll; and the doubling of the root, lglg galgal or gilgal, signifies rolling round and round, or rolling off or away, because, in circumcising the children that had been born in the wilderness, Joshua rolled away, rolled off completely, the reproach of the people. From this time Gilgal became a place of considerable eminence in the sacred history.
1. It was the place where the Israelitish camp rested the first night of their entering into that land which had been promised to their fathers from the days of Abraham. 2. It was the place in which Joshua circumcised all the people who had been born in the wilderness, during the forty years of their wandering, after they left Egypt. 3. It was the place in which Joshua had what we might term his fortified camp, and to which he and his army constantly returned after each of their expeditions against the inhabitants of the land. 4. It appears to have been the place where all the women, children, cattle, and goods, &c., were lodged, probably during the whole of the Canaanitish war. 5. It was the place where they celebrated the first passover they kept in the promised land. 6. It was the place where Saul, the first king of Israel, was proclaimed. 7. There the manna ceased to fall.
And, 8. There the ark was fixed till, after the conquest of the country, it was removed to Shiloh. Gilgal was about ten furlongs from Jericho, and fifty from Jordan: Jericho being on the west, and Jordan on the east, Gilgal being between both. See Josephus, Deuteronomy Bello, &c., lib. v., c. 4, and Calmet on this place. Calmet supposes there was neither city nor town here before the arrival of the Israelites.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. And the people came up out of Jordan , etc.] The channel of it, to the shore: on the tenth [day] of the first month ; the month Nisan or Abib, which from the time of Israel’s coming out of Egypt was appointed the first month of the year, ( Exodus 12:2); on the fifteenth of which month they came out of Egypt, having kept the passover on the fourteenth at even; so that their coming out of Egypt, to their entrance into Canaan, was just forty years, wanting five days. This tenth day was the day in which the passover was taken from the flock, and kept till the fourteenth, on which day the children of Israel kept their first passover in Canaan, in the plains of Jericho, ( Joshua 5:10); and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho ; it has its name here by anticipation, for it was so named after this for a reason given, ( Joshua 5:9); It was, according to Josephus f57 , ten furlongs, or a mile and a quarter, from Jericho. Jerom says f58 , there was shown in his time a desert place two miles from Jericho, had in wonderful esteem by men of that country, which he suggests was this place; as it was had in great veneration, both by the worshippers of the true God, and by idolaters, for many ages.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-19 - The priests with the ark did not stir till ordered to move. Let none be weary of waiting, while they have the tokens of God's presence with them, even the ark of the covenant, though it be in the depths of adversity. Notice is taken of the honour put upon Joshua. Those ar feared in the best manner, and to the best purpose, who make it appea that God is with them, and that they set him before them.
Original Hebrew
והעם 5971 עלו 5927 מן 4480 הירדן 3383 בעשׂור 6218 לחדשׁ 2320 הראשׁון 7223 ויחנו 2583 בגלגל 1537 בקצה 7097 מזרח 4217 יריחו׃ 3405
