Thematic Bible: Tent


Thematic Bible



Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel. Verse ConceptsTentsTrumpetAudacityTrumpets For SignallingNot Sharing

And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents. Verse ConceptsTentsRevoltsNot Sharing

How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel! They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord. Verse ConceptsAltarsTreesBuilding AltarsOaks

And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord. Verse ConceptsAi, The CityCalling upon GodNomadsShrinesTentsAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Calling And LifePrayer, Described AsAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsEast And West

Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day; Verse ConceptsHeatNoonRevelation, In OtSittingTentsAbraham, Testing And VictoryOaksHot WeatherGod Appearing

My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenLife, HumanPhysical LifeSpinning And WeavingPeople EndedLife Cut ShortLife Being Temporary

Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place. Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Kings And Leaders


So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's. Verse ConceptsTentsNot Finding

And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks. Verse ConceptsNomadsEmpty CitiesNo More Tending The Flock

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle. Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsSpiritual FathersThose Who Kept Stock

And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofTentsIndustry, Examples OfTentmakingLike Good PeopleStaying Temporarilypartnershipvocation

The curtains of Cushan were troubled, and the tents of Midian were shaking. Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsGroups Trembling

And Moses went out to his father-in-law, and went down on his face before him and gave him a kiss; and they said to one another, Are you well? and they came into the tent. Verse ConceptsPeople KissingBowingGreetingsKissingKissesSpoken Greetings


And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents; Verse ConceptsTentsOwning LivestockPossessing Sheep

For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction. Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain