Thematic Bible: Tent


Thematic Bible



Now a wicked man, a Benjaminite named Sheba son of Bichri, happened to be there. He blew the ram’s horn and shouted:

We have no portion in David,
no inheritance in Jesse’s son.
Each man to his tent, Israel!
Verse ConceptsTentsTrumpetAudacityTrumpets For SignallingNot Sharing

When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him:

What portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
Israel, return to your tents;
David, now look after your own house!


So Israel went to their tents, Verse ConceptsTentsRevoltsNot Sharing

How beautiful are your tents, Jacob, your dwellings, Israel. they stretch out like river valleys, like gardens beside a stream, like aloes the Lord has planted, like cedars beside the water.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the Lord. Verse ConceptsAltarsTreesBuilding AltarsOaks

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh. Verse ConceptsAi, The CityCalling upon GodNomadsShrinesTentsAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Calling And LifePrayer, Described AsAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsEast And West

Then the Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting in the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day. Verse ConceptsHeatNoonRevelation, In OtSittingTentsAbraham, Testing And VictoryOaksHot WeatherGod Appearing

My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me
like a shepherd’s tent.
I have rolled up my life like a weaver;
He cuts me off from the loom.
You make an end of me from day until night.
Verse ConceptsCraftsmenLife, HumanPhysical LifeSpinning And WeavingPeople EndedLife Cut ShortLife Being Temporary

Shepherds and their flocks will come against her;
they will pitch their tents all around her.
Each will pasture his own portion.
Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Kings And Leaders

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death. Verse ConceptsHusbandsLove, In RelationshipsMarriage, Purpose OfTentsGod's Mercy, Example OfComfort, Of FriendsCourtingMen And Women Who LovedMothers Deathmomslosing a loved oneDeath Of A MotherLoss Of A Loved One

So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s. Verse ConceptsTentsNot Finding

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and captured many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

It will never be inhabited
or lived in from generation to generation;
a nomad will not pitch his tent there,
and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
Verse ConceptsNomadsEmpty CitiesNo More Tending The Flock

Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen. Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsSpiritual FathersThose Who Kept Stock

and being of the same occupation, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofTentsIndustry, Examples OfTentmakingLike Good PeopleStaying Temporarilypartnershipvocation

I see the tents of Cushan in distress;
the tent curtains of the land of Midian tremble.
Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsGroups Trembling

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. They asked each other how they had been and went into the tent. Verse ConceptsPeople KissingBowingGreetingsKissingKissesSpoken Greetings


Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents. Verse ConceptsTentsOwning LivestockPossessing Sheep

For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to waste it. Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

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