Numbers 2:2 - Exposition

Shall pitch by his own standard. We are not told how they had pitched hitherto; the tribal and family order now enforced was the natural order, but in the absence of precise directions would sometimes be departed from. With the ensign. Rather, "ensigns" ( othoth in the plural). Each tribe, it would seem (see Numbers 2:31 ), had its standard ( degel ) , and each family in the tribe its ensign ( oth ) . Far off. Rather, "over against," i.e; facing the tabernacle, with a certain space between.