Bible verses about Tents
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)
- Origin and antiquity of
Genesis 4:20- CALLED
- Tabernacles
Numbers 24:5; Job 12:6; Hebrews 11:9
- Curtains
Isaiah 54:2; Hebrews 3:7- Were spread out
Isaiah 40:22- Fastened by cords to stakes or nails
Isaiah 54:2; Jeremiah 10:20; Judges 4:21- WERE USED BY
- Patriarchs
Genesis 13:5; 25:27; Hebrews 11:9
- Israel in the desert
Exodus 33:8; Numbers 24:2
- The people of Israel in all their wars
I Samuel 4:3,10; 29:1; I Kings 16:16
- The Rechabites
Jeremiah 35:7,10
- The Arabs
Isaiah 13:20
- Shepherds while tending their flocks
Solomon 1:8; Isaiah 38:12
- All eastern nations
Judges 6:5; I Samuel 17:4; II Kings 7:7; I Chronicles 5:10- Separate, for females of the family
Genesis 24:67- Separate, for the servants
Genesis 31:33- WERE PITCHED
- With order and regularity
Numbers 1:52
- In the neighbourhood of wells, &c
Genesis 13:10,12; 26:17,18; I Samuel 29:1
- Under trees
Genesis 18:1,4; Judges 4:5
- On the tops of houses
II Samuel 16:22- Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to
Deuteronomy 1:33- Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to
Isaiah 38:12- Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs
Numbers 24:5; Solomon 1:5- Custom of sitting and standing at the door of
Genesis 18:1; Judges 4:20- ILLUSTRATIVE
- (Spread out,) of the heavens
Isaiah 40:22
- (Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church
Isaiah 54:2