Dictionary entry

Tents

R. A. Torrey's New 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