Origin and antiquity of Ge 4:20
CALLED
Tabernacles Nu 24:5; Job 12:6; Heb 11:9
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