Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

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Jeremiah 35:10
We have lived in tents. We have obeyed and have done everything that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.
Genesis 25:27
As the boys were growing up, Esau became skilled at hunting and was a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was the quiet type who tended to stay indoors.
Leviticus 23:42
You are to live in tents for seven days. Every native born of Israel is to live in tents
Nehemiah 8:14
They found written in the Law that the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelis were to live in tents during the festival scheduled for the seventh month.
Ephesians 5:18
Stop getting drunk with wine, which leads to wild living, but keep on being filled with the Spirit.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who also inherited the same promise,
1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and exiles to keep on abstaining from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.

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Genesis 36:7
because their holdings were too vast to allow them to stay together, since the land where they had settled was not able to support all of their livestock.
Exodus 20:12
"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
1 Chronicles 16:19
When you were few in number very few, and strangers at that
Psalm 105:12
When the Hebrews were few in number so very few and were sojourners in it,
Ephesians 6:2
"Honor your father and mother"" (This is a very important commandment with a promise.)

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Jeremiah 35:9
and have built no houses to live in. We don't have vineyards, fields, or seed.

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