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CAN a modern military camp, because in that case these regulations evidently could not be carried out without a great expenditure of time. But the Israelites traversed a country broken up into innumerable little valleys, and oftentimes the host must have stretched along for miles, but so closely hemmed in between mountain-sides that to go without the camp would be but a few steps. In later times, when Israel was settled in the Promised Land, we find scattered references to camps. They appear to have been generally pitched upon high ground. Jud 7:1, 1 Kgs 15:8; 1 Sam 17:4; 1 Sam 28:4. They were sometimes intrenched; at other times a barrier was formed of the baggage-wagons. Jehoshaphat established permanent camps. 2 Chr 17:2. CAM'PHIRE . Song of Solomon 4:13. A shrub, sometimes 10 feet high, growing in Egypt and other Eastern countries, and called henna (Lawsonia alba). The white-and-yellow flowers grow in clusters, like the lilac, and are very fragrant. From the leaves, when dried Camphire. (Lawsonia alba.) and pulverized, is made an orange or reddish dye, with which females stain their hands and feet. Sonnini says that Eastern women "are fond of decorating themselves with the flowers of the henna-plant; that they take them in their hands and perfume their bosoms with them." What we call camphor is an entirely different substance. It is remarkable that camphire is still found growing only at one place in Palestine, and that En-gedi. Song of Solomon 1:14.

CAN , south-west of the Land of Promise, but in its present usage denotes the whole country bounded by the Jordan on the east, the Mediterranean on the west, Arabia on the south, and Lebanon on the north. For physical features, see PALESTINE. Sketch-Map of Canaan before the Conquest. History.נ-Previous to its conquest by Joshua, Canaan was peopled by several tribes, as Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, Girgasites, Hivites, Perizzites, and four others, all early known as Canaanites. Gen 10:15-19. Later, "Canaanites" appears to designate a separate tribe, and the land was inhabited by them and six other tribes. Canaan was the country for which Terah started, Gen 11:31; Abram dwelt in it; it was promised to him for a possession. Gen 12:5, 1 Kgs 15:8, etc.; Isaac, Jacob, and the patriarchs made their home there. Gen 26-35. It was left by Jacob because of the famine; searched by the twelve spies. Num 13:2; viewed by Moses, Deut 32:49; conquered by Joshua, Josh 11:23; divided by lot among the twelve tribes. Josh 13:7; a king of the country was slain by Deborah and Barak. Jud 4:24. See Map. In the temple at Karnak, in Egypt, a triple list of 118 or 119 towns of Canaan has lately been discovered, which is believed to be a record of an Egyptian conquest of the land by Thuthmes III, previous to that by Joshua. See the list of these towns in Conder's Tent-Work in Palestine, vol. ii. 344-346. It is the oldest known record of Canaanite cities before the time of Joshua. For later history see Judah, Kingdom of; Israel, Kingdom of; and Palestine.

CAN considerable village. Conder suggests a new location, and proposes to place Cana at Reiach, north-east of Nazareth, and only one and a half miles distant. — CONDER: Tent-Work in Palestine, 1878, i. p. 154. This lacks confirmation.