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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; 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
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