Bible Concordances
Tents

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
    1 Samuel 4:3,10; 29:1; 1 Kings 16:16
  • The Rechabites
    Jeremiah 35:7,10
  • The Arabs
    Isaiah 13:20
  • Shepherds while tending their flocks
    Song of Solomon 1:8; Isaiah 38:12
  • All eastern nations
    Judges 6:5; 1 Samuel 17:4; 2 Kings 7:7; 1 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; 1 Samuel 29:1
  • Under trees
    Genesis 18:1,4; Judges 4:5
  • On the tops of houses
    2 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; Song of 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