Answers about
camps
During their journeys across the wilderness, the tribes of Israel formed encampments at the many different places where they halted. Sometimes God presented them with amazing events.
So it happened at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. Then the layer of dew evaporated, and behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground. —Exodus 16:13-14
The area of the camp would be in all about 3 square miles. Each tribe of Israel camped in a specific position during the wanderings of the Exodus.
Now those who camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab, —Numbers 2:3
But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.” —Numbers 1:53
(Num. 2:2-31; 3:29, 35, 38; 10:13-28)
After the Hebrews entered Canaan, the camps then spoken of were exclusively warlike (Joshua 11:5, 7; Judges 5:19, 21; 7:1; 1 Samuel 29:1; 30:9, etc.).
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