Tents
15 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- (Enlarging of) of the Great Extension of the Church
- (Spread Out) the Heavens
- Called: Curtains
- Called: Tabernacles
- Custom of Sitting and Standing at the Door of
- Ease and Rapidity of Their Removal, Alluded To
- Fastened by Cords to Stakes or Nails
- Origin and Antiquity of
- Sending Persons to Seek a Convenient Place For, Alluded To
- Separate, for Females of the Family
- Separate, for the Servants
(Enlarging of) of the Great Extension of the Church
- Isaiah 54:2 “Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.
(Spread Out) the Heavens
- Isaiah 40:22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Called: Curtains
- Isaiah 54:2 “Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.
- Hebrews 3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: “Today, if you hear His voice,
Called: Tabernacles
- Numbers 24:5 How lovely are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!
- Job 12:6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure — those who carry their god in their hands.
- Hebrews 11:9 By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Custom of Sitting and Standing at the Door of
- Genesis 18:1 Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
- Judges 4:20 “Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’”
Ease and Rapidity of Their Removal, Alluded To
- Isaiah 38:12 My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
Fastened by Cords to Stakes or Nails
- Isaiah 54:2 “Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep.
- Jeremiah 10:20 My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.
- Judges 4:21 But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
Origin and Antiquity of
- Genesis 4:20 Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.
Sending Persons to Seek a Convenient Place For, Alluded To
- Deuteronomy 1:33 who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
Separate, for Females of the Family
- Genesis 24:67 And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Separate, for the Servants
- Genesis 31:33 So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
Related topics
Tents were PitchedTents were Pitched in the Neighbourhood of WellsTents were Used by all Eastern NationsTents were Used by The People of Israel in all Their WarsTents were Used by PatriarchsTents of the Jews Contrasted with Those of the Arabs
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.