Tents

Origin and antiquity of Genesis 4:20
CALLED
- Tabernacles Numbers 24:5; Job 12:6; Hebrews 11:9
- Curtains Isaiah 54:2; Hebrews 3:7
Were spread out Isaiah 40:22
Fastened by cords to stakes or nails Isaiah 54:2; Jeremiah 10:20; Judges 4:21
WERE USED BY
- Patriarchs Genesis 13:5; 25:27; Hebrews 11:9
- Israel in the desert Exodus 33:8; Numbers 24:2
- The people of Israel in all their wars 1 Samuel 4:3,10; 29:1; 1 Kings 16:16
- The Rechabites Jeremiah 35:7,10
- The Arabs Isaiah 13:20
- Shepherds while tending their flocks Song of Solomon 1:8; Isaiah 38:12
- All eastern nations Judges 6:5; 1 Samuel 17:4; 2 Kings 7:7; 1 Chronicles 5:10
Separate, for females of the family Genesis 24:67
Separate, for the servants Genesis 31:33
WERE PITCHED
- With order and regularity Numbers 1:52
- In the neighbourhood of wells, &c Genesis 13:10,12; 26:17,18; 1 Samuel 29:1
- Under trees Genesis 18:1,4; Judges 4:5
- On the tops of houses 2 Samuel 16:22
Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to Deuteronomy 1:33
Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to Isaiah 38:12
Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs Numbers 24:5; Song of Solomon 1:5
Custom of sitting and standing at the door of Genesis 18:1; Judges 4:20
ILLUSTRATIVE
- (Spread out,) of the heavens Isaiah 40:22
- (Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church Isaiah 54:2

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