Category:Encamp

En*camp", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Encamped; p. pr. & vb. n. Encamping.]

Defn: To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chronicles 11:15.

encamp En*camp", v. t.

Defn: To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters. Bid him encamp his soldiers. Shak.

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary.

Encamp - An encampment was the resting-place for a longer or shorter period of an army or company of travelers (Exodus 13:20; Exodus 14:19; Joshua 10:5; Joshua 11:5). The manner in which the Israelites encamped during their march through the wilderness is described in Numbers 2 and Numbers 3. The order of the encampment (see CAMP) was preserved in the march (Numbers 2:17), the signal for which was the blast of two silver trumpets. Detailed regulations affecting the camp for sanitary purposes are given (Leviticus 4:11, Leviticus 4:12; Leviticus 6:11; Leviticus 8:17; Leviticus 10:4, Leviticus 10:5; Leviticus 13:46; Leviticus 14:3; Numbers 12:14, Numbers 12:15; Numbers 31:19; Deuteronomy 23:10, Deuteronomy 23:12). Criminals were executed without the camp (Leviticus 4:12; compare John 19:17, John 19:20), and there also the young bullock for a sin-offering was burnt (Leviticus 24:14; compare Hebrews 13:12). In the subsequent history of Israel frequent mention is made of their encampments in the time of war (Judges 7:18; 1 Samuel 13:2, 1 Samuel 13:3, 1 Samuel 13:16, 1 Samuel 13:23; 1 Samuel 17:3; 1 Samuel 29:1; 1 Samuel 30:9, 1 Samuel 30:24). The temple was sometimes called "the camp of the Lord" (2 Chronicles 31:2, R.V.; compare Psalms 78:28). The multitudes who flocked to David are styled "a great host (i.e., "camp;" Heb. mahaneh ), like the host of God" (1 Chronicles 12:22).