Camp

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CAMP.—See War.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Camp. See Encampment.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


or ENCAMPMENT, of the Israelites. The whole body of the people, consisting of six hundred thousand fighting men, beside women and children, was disposed under four battalions, so placed as to enclose the tabernacle, in the form of a square, and each under one general standard. (See Armies.) There were forty-one encampments, from their first in the month of March, at Rameses, in the land of Goshen, in Egypt, and in the wilderness, until they reached the land of Canaan. They are thus enumerated in Numbers 33 :—
1. Rameses
2. Succoth
3. Etham, on the edge of the wilderness
4. Pihahiroth
5. Marah
6. Elim
7. By the Red Sea
8. Wilderness of Sin
9. Dophkah
10. Alush
11. Rephidim
12. Wilderness of Sinai
13. Kibroth-hattaavah
14. Hazeroth
15. Rithmah
16. Rimmon-parez
17. Libnah
18. Rissah
19. Kehelatha
20. Shapher
21. Haradah
22. Makheloth
23. Tahath
24. Tarah
25. Mithcah
26. Hashmonah
27. Moseroth
28. Bene-jaakan
29. Hor-hagidgad
30. Jotbathah
31. Ebronah
32. Ebion-gaber
33. Kadesh
34. Mount Hor
35. Zalmonah
36. Punon
37. Oboth
38. Ije-abarim
39. Dibon-gad
40. Almon-diblathaim
41. Mountains of Abarim In the second year after their exodus from Egypt they were numbered; and upon an exact poll, the number of their males amounted to six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty, from twenty years old and upward, Num_1:2. This vast mass of people, encamped in beautiful order, must have presented a most impressive spectacle. That it failed not to produce effect upon the richly endowed and poetic mind of Balaam, appears from Num_24:2; “And Balaam lifted up his eyes and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he took up his parable and said, How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel! As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside waters.” Grandeur, order, beauty, and freshness, were the ideas at once suggested to the mind of this unfaithful prophet, and called forth his unwilling admiration. Perhaps we may consider this spectacle as a type of the order, beauty, and glory of the true “church in the wilderness,” in those happy days when God “shall not behold iniquity in Jacob, nor perverseness in Israel;” when it shall be said, “The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.”
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


See WAR.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Heb_13:13 (b) The great religious groups of the world established by human agencies and teaching men's theories are called a "camp."

Rev_20:9 (b) A term used to describe the armies of Israel encamped in and around Jerusalem.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.


Camp
(מִחֲנֶה, machaneh', an encampment, whether of troops or nomades, especially of the Israelites in the desert; hence also put for troops or a company itself; once מִהֲנוֹת, machanoth', camps, i.e. place of encampment, 2Ki_6:8; παρεμβολή, Heb_13:11; Heb_13:13;Rev_20:9; elsewhere “castle”). Of the Jewish system of encampmentthe Mosaic books have left a detailed description. From the period of the sojourn in the wilderness to the crossing of the Jordan the twelve tribes were formed into four great armies, encamping in as many fronts, or forming a square, with a great space in the rear, where the tabernacle of the Lord was placed, surrounded by the tribe of Levi and the bodies of carriers, etc., by the stalls of the cattle and the baggage: the four fronts faced the cardinal points while the march was eastward, but, as Judah continued to lead the van, it follows that, when the Jordan was to be crossed, the direction became westward, and therefore the general arrangement, so far as the cardinal points were concerned, was reversed. It does not appear that, during this time, Israel ever had lines of defense thrown up; but in after ages, when only single armies came into the field, it is probable that the castral disposition was not invariably quadrangular;and, from the many position is indicated on the crests of steep mountains, the fronts were clearly adapted to the ground and to the space which it was necessary to occupy. The rear of such positions, or the square camps in the plain, appear from the marginal reading of 1Sa_17:20; 1Sa_26:5, to have been enclosed with a line ‘of carts or chariots, which, from the remotest period, was a practice among all the nomad nations of the north. (D'Aquine, Le Camp des Israelites, Par. 1623, 1624.) For a more general treatment of the subject, from a military point of view, SEE ENCAMPE.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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