'Tents' in the Bible

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

May God enlarge Japheth's territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!"

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

And he said to the community, "Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins."

So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers.

How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwelling places, O Israel!

Go and tell them, 'Return to your tents!'

or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them.

You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside, and Issachar, when you are in your tents.

So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.

The most rewarded of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, "We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn't even hear a man's voice. But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up."

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem.

if iniquity is in your hand -- put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.

For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

For you say, 'Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?'

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the Lord.

They celebrate deliverance in the tents of the godly. The Lord's right hand conquers,

How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar.

The Beloved to the Maidens: I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.

The Lover to His Beloved: If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.

I see one destruction after another taking place, so that the whole land lies in ruins. I see our tents suddenly destroyed, their curtains torn down in a mere instant.

But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.'

We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.

For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down."'"

Their tents and their flocks will be taken away. Their tent curtains, equipment, and camels will be carried off. People will shout to them, 'Terror is all around you!'"

So take note, I am about to make you slaves of the tribes of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

He will pitch his royal tents between the seas toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking.

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.