Tents
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; Jdj 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. -- Song 1:8; Isa 38:12. All eastern nations. -- Jdj 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; Jdj 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; Song 1:5. Custom of sitting and standing at the door of -- Ge 18:1; Jdj 4:20. Illustrative (Spread out,) of the heavens. -- Isa 40:22. (Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church. -- Isa 54:2.