Places
Gilgal in Judges 2
GIL-gal
This place shows up in Judges 2:1: “Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Judges 2:1
“Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.”
What kids can learn
When you hear gilgal in Judges, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Judges 2:1 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Judges 2:1
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
Yahweh’sangelcameupfromGilgaltoBochim.Hesaid,“IyououtofEgypt,andhavebroughtyoutothelandIsworetogiveyourfathers.Isaid,‘Iwillneverbreakmycovenantyou.