Bible verses about Tents
Scripture references about Tents, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Tents in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- Origin and antiquity of: Ge 4:20
- CALLED
- Tabernacles: Nu 24:5; Job 12:6; Heb 11:9
- Curtains: Isa 54:2; Heb 3:7
- Were spread out: Isa 40:22
- Fastened by cords to stakes or nails: Isa 54:2; Jer 10:20; Jud 4:21
- WERE USED BY
- Patriarchs: Ge 13:5; 25:27; Heb 11:9
- Israel in the desert: Ex 33:8; Nu 24:2
- The people of Israel in all their wars: 1Sa 4:3,10; 29:1; 1Ki 16:16
- The Rechabites: Jer 35:7,10
- The Arabs: Isa 13:20
- Shepherds while tending their flocks: So 1:8; Isa 38:12
- All eastern nations
- Jud 6:5: 1Sa 17:4; 2Ki 7:7; 1Ch 5:10
- Separate, for females of the family: Ge 24:67
- Separate, for the servants: Ge 31:33
- WERE PITCHED
- With order and regularity: Nu 1:52
- In the neighbourhood of wells, &c: Ge 13:10,12; 26:17,18; 1Sa 29:1
- Under trees: Ge 18:1,4; Jud 4:5
- On the tops of houses: 2Sa 16:22
- Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to: De 1:33
- Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to: Isa 38:12
- Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs: Nu 24:5; So 1:5
- Custom of sitting and standing at the door of: Ge 18:1; Jud 4:20
- ILLUSTRATIVE
- (Spread out,) of the heavens: Isa 40:22
- (Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church: Isa 54:2