“The temple is placed in the center of Israel both literally and symbolically. For ancient Israel, the entire camp was laid out in relationship to the tabernacle, or temple. … The temple is a sacred place where God makes himself and his plan known to his people. … Like ancient Israel, Benjamin’s people ‘pitched their tents round about the temple, every man having his tent with the door thereof towards the temple’ (Mosiah 2:6). As the word tent can also mean household, or people (Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 4:572), in a very real sense the families of Benjamin’s colony turned toward the temple” (Donaldson, “Benjamin and Noah,” 50–51).