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Gilgal. Jaredites desired a king, he was one of those to whom this honor was offered, and who refused. From the general summary given us of the character of the people of that generation, we have every reason to believe he was a righteous man.  GILGAL. A Nephite general who commanded a corps of ten thousand men in the last great struggle between the Nephites and the Lamanites. He, with all his command, was slain in the final series of battles in the land Cumorah, (A. C. 385), when the Nephite nation was annihilated.   GILGAL, CITY OF. A wicked city of the Nephites, which is only mentioned in connection with its destruction in the awful convulsions of nature that took place on this continent when the Savior was crucified. By the power of God it sunk and its corrupt inhabitants were buried in the depths of the earth. No clue is given to its locality. (III Nephi, 9:6.)   GILGAL, VALLEY OF. A valley mentioned as the locality of several desperate battles in the last Jaredite war. The first of these battles was between the armies of Shared and those of Coriantumr; it lasted three days. The losses on both sides were exceedingly heavy, and ended in a victory for Coriantumr, who pursued the enemy as far as the plains of Heshlon. There, another hotly contested fight took place, in which the tide of fortune turned, and Coriantumr was driven back to the valley of Gilgal. Here, a third conflict ensued, in which Shared was killed and Coriantumr wounded. Nothing is said in the Book of Ether that gives any clue to the locality in which Gilgal was situated.   GIMGIMNO, CITY OF. One of the iniquitous cities of the Nephites, whose inhabitants had persecuted, cast out and slain the prophets and saints of the Lord, and for that cause was destroyed by being sunk, with all its sin-stained <section end="Gimgimno, City of" />