Thematic Bible: Booth


Thematic Bible



The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon
or a booth set up by a watchman.
Verse ConceptsInsectsMothsSpidersDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

Daughter Zion is abandoned
like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a shack in a cucumber field,
like a besieged city.
Verse ConceptsCucumbersFruitBoothsAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

The earth staggers like a drunkard
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.
Verse ConceptsStaggeringGod Making DrunkThings Fallingrebelliondrunkards

On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees-palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook-and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. You are to celebrate it as a festival to the Lord seven days each year. This is a permanent statute for you throughout your generations; you must celebrate it in the seventh month. You are to live in booths for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in booths, read more.
so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God."

So they proclaimed and spread this news throughout all their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and [other] leafy trees to make booths, just as it is written." The people went out, brought back [branches], and made booths for themselves on each of their rooftops, and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate, and the square by the Gate of Ephraim.

but Jacob went on to Succoth. He built a house for himself and stalls for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth. Verse ConceptsBuild, LiterallyBooths

Jonah left the city and sat down east of it. He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city. Verse ConceptsWaitingBoothsPeople Sitting Downjonah

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