"All their wickedness is in Gilgal; For there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
Since Gibeah, already mentioned, was conspicuously associated with the rise of the evil monarchy, it is possible that the introduction of Gilgal here focuses upon something beyond that.  If so, it was likely because, "It was at Gilgal that Saul, their first king, was rejected in the name of the Lord by Samuel the prophet, for the king's disobedience."[27]  There is also the widespread identification of that place with the extravagant immoralities and indecencies of the worship of Baal adopted by the Israelites.  See  Amos 4:15; 5:5; and 12:11.  Keil mentioned the opinion of some that human sacrifice was even practiced there.[28]  However, in line with the rejection of Israel bluntly stated almost in the same breath, it would appear that the implication of bringing in Gilgal here pertained to the rejection of Saul.  Just as their first king had been rejected, now the whole nation would also be cast off.  The prophecy of the final event was in the first.