Camp During their journeys across the wilderness, the twelve tribes formed encampments at the different places where they halted (Exodus 16:13; Numbers 2:3). The diagram here given shows the position of the different tribes and the form of the encampment during the wanderings, according to Numbers 1:53; Numbers 1:2; Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:3; Numbers 1:10.
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 (Joshua 11:5, Joshua 1:11; Judges 5:19, Judges 1:5; Judges 1:7; 1 Samuel 29:1; 1 Samuel 1:30, etc.).