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**standard ... ensign -**The “standard” marked the division, or camp (cf. [Numbers 1:9](../../../kjv/numbers/1/9), [Numbers 1:16](../../../kjv/numbers/1/16), [Numbers 1:24](../../../kjv/numbers/1/24), [Numbers 1:31](../../../kjv/numbers/1/31)); the “ensign” the family. There would thus be four “standards” only, one for each “camp” of three tribes. The “standard” was probably a solid figure or emblem mounted on a pole, such as the Egyptians used. Tradition appropriates the four cherubic forms ([Ezekiel 1:5-12](../../../kjv/ezekiel/1/5-12); [Revelation 4:7](../../../kjv/revelation/4/7) ff), the lion, man, ox, and eagle, to the camps of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan respectively; and this, as to the first, has a certain support from [Genesis 49:9](../../../kjv/genesis/49/9) (compare [Revelation 5:5](../../../kjv/revelation/5/5)), and as to the third, from [Deuteronomy 33:17](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/33/17).
**Far off -**See the margin, over against; i. e. facing the tabernacle on every side. The distance was perhaps 2,000 cubits or rather more than 14 mile: compare [Joshua 3:4](../../../kjv/joshua/3/4).

**Reuel -**Doubtless an error of transcription for Deuel [Numbers 1:14](../../../kjv/numbers/1/14).

Such was the ideal form of the encampment in the wilderness: a form reproduced in the square court with which the temple was eventually surrounded, and in the vision of the heavenly city as seen by Ezekiel [Ezekiel 48:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/48/20), and by John ([Revelation 21:16](../../../kjv/revelation/21/16); compare [Revelation 20:9](../../../kjv/revelation/20/9)). Thus the camp of God’s earthly people was divinely ordered so as to set forth the completeness of His Church; and to illustrate by its whole arrangement, which was determined by the tabernacle in the center, both the dependance of all on God, and the access which all enjoyed to God.

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