Gilgal

Gilgal is the proper place for any of God's children to start out for service. Gilgal was the place for mortification of the flesh. To win victories the sharp knives must be used, not against our enemies, but against ourselves. Here it was that the Lord rolled away the reproach of Egypt. All that comes between our souls and Christ is truly a reproach to us and we have to judge it unsparingly. Elijah makes his departure and tells Elisha to tarry. He is testing him out to see his desire. He makes a wonderful reply: "As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee." That was heart attachment. Oh, for heart attachment to Christ!
And so they go, both together, down to Bethel and to the house of God. In Gen. 35, after Jacob had gotten into the mix up with his family, God exercised him to go back to Bethel. This Jacob did, but he realized that if he was going to go to the house of God, he must first bury the false gods that had somehow gotten into his household.