But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
"Unto the camp at Gilgal ..."  (Joshua 9:6). "This was the base of Joshua's operations in the entire southern campaign in Canaan."[12]  Alfred Plummer suggested that, "This is another Gilgal to be distinguished from the one previously occupied near Jericho."[13]