The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
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 l, ten furlongs, or a mile and a quarter, from Jericho. Jerom says m, 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.