But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand to you, king. He said, Keep silence. All who stood by him went out from him.
Archaeologists have not yet identified the town of Seirah (Judges 3:26), but it may have stood to the northwest of Gilgal in Ephraim’s hill country (Judges 3:27).