Camp
Camp
(, 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 , machanoth’, camps, i.e. place of encampment, 2Ki 6:8; , 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.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Camp (2)
in Greek mythology was a monster stationed in Tartarus, to guard the Cemeteries and Cyclops imprisoned there by Uranus. When Jupiter was advised by his mother and Metis to get the means where, by he might master his father he was promised the help of the Cyclops and of the hundred-armed-giants: if he would liberate them; therefore he killed’ Campe and liberated them. When Bacchus journeyed through Libya, he erected a tent near Zabirnma; here he slew an earth-born monster which bore the same name as the above (others say it was identical with it), and had killed many of the inhabitants. He piled up a great hill over’ the carcass, as a monument to his courage.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Camp
During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different places where they halted (Ex. 16:13; Num. 2:3). The diagram here given shows the position of the different tribes and the form of the encampment during the wanderings, according to Num. 1:53; 2:2-31; 3:29, 35, 38; 10:13-28.
The area of the camp would be in all about 3 square miles. After the Hebrews entered Palestine, the camps then spoken of were exclusively warlike (Josh. 11:5, 7; Judg. 5:19, 21; 7:1; 1 Sam. 29:1; 30:9, etc.).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Camp
CAMP.See War.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Camp
See WAR.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Camp
‘The Camp’ was a common expression used of Israel in the wilderness: the tabernacle in the centre and the twelve tribes, each in its appointed place, arranged around it, composed the camp.
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| CAMP OF EPHRAIM, |
| 108,100 |
| MANASSEH , BENJAMIN, |
| 32,200 35,400 |
| EPHRAIM, |
| 40,500. |
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| GAD || NAPHTALI, |
| 45,650 | K GERSHONITES M | 53,400 |
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S | | A | COURT | A | | N
O | CAMP | T | OF THE | R | CAMP | O
U | OF REUBEN | H | TABER- | I | DAN, OF | R
T | REUBEN 46,500 | I | NACLE. | T | 62,700 DAN, | T
H | 151,450 | T | | E | 157,600 | H
| | E S | |
| | S MOSES, AARON, | |
| SIMEON, | AND THE PRIESTS. | ASHER, |
| 59,300 | | 41,500 |
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| JUDAH, |
| 7 |
| ISSACHAR, ZEBULUN, |
| 54,400 57,400 |
| CAMP OF JUDAH, |
| 186,400 |
| |
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Everything was ordered of God, and each tribe must pitch its tents in the places appointed for them. Num 2. As we might have expected, Moses, Aaron, and the priests were nearest to the door of the Tabernacle, and the Levites surrounded the three other sides.
The order in which the tribes were to march was also specified. In Psa 80:2 we read “Before Ephraim, and Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up thy strength, and come and save us.” This alludes to those three being the tribes which immediately followed the Ark, the symbol of God’s presence. It will be seen that the tribes were grouped under four leaders, each being called a camp. They moved in the order given in Num 10.
JUDAH, with Issachar and Zebulun The GERSHONITES and the MERARITES with the Tabernacle REUBEN, with Simeon and Gad The KOHATHITES with the ‘sanctuary,’
EPHRAIM, with Manasseh and Benjamin DAN, with Asher and Naphtali.
Certain defilements shut a person out of the camp until he was cleansed, and many things had to be carried outside as being unfit for the place in the midst of which God had His dwelling-place. When the camp itself had become defiled by the golden calf, Moses “took the tabernacle and pitched it without the camp . . . . and called it the tabernacle of the congregation.” This was not really ‘the tabernacle,’ for it had not at that time been erected. The word used signifies ‘the tent,’ and it was doubtless a tent anticipatory of the tabernacle significantly pitched by Moses outside the camp, to show that God’s dwelling could not be where there was an idol, for it is added, “Every one which sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.” Exo 33:7.
The bodies of the beasts whose blood was brought into the sanctuary by the high priests for sin were burned without the camp. Exo 29:14; Lev 4:11-12; Heb 13:11. With this is linked the fact that Jesus also ‘suffered without the gate’ (of Jerusalem, which then answered to the camp); on which is based the exhortation to Christians, “Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.” Heb 13:12-13. The whole earthly religious system adapted to the natural man, as Judaism of old, answers now to ‘the camp’ which Christians are exhorted to leave. Such systems, Judaism and Christendom, stand in direct contrast to the heavenly and spiritual character of the church of God. The camp in Rev 20:9 refers to the nation of Israel when again gathered into the land of Palestine. There is no ‘camp’ on earth for the church.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Camp
Of the Israelites about the tabernacle
Num 2 Itinerary
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Camp
Camp. See Encampment.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Camp
* For CAMP see ARMY
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Camp
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.
Fuente: Biblical and Theological Dictionary
Camp
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.