9 Bible Verses about Curtains
Most Relevant Verses
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Beyond the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place. It had a golden incense burner. The Ark of the Covenant was completely covered with gold. It contained the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant.
Construct the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material. Make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. Each curtain will be forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All will be the same size.
The veil (curtain) of the temple was ripped in two from the top to the bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks split.
Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
He made the darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about, the dark rain clouds his covering.
Jehovah said: Tell your brother Aaron that he cannot go into the holy place whenever he wants to. If he goes up to the canopy and stands in front of the throne of mercy on the Ark, he will die. This is because I appear in the smoke above the throne of mercy.
Construct the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material. Make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. Each curtain will be forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All will be the same size. Five of the curtains must be sewn together. The other five must also be sewn together.read more.
Make fifty violet loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set, Place the loops opposite each other. Make fifty gold fasteners. Use them to link the two sets of curtains together so that the tent is a single unit. Make eleven curtains of goats' hair to form an outer tent over the inner tent. Each of the eleven curtains will be forty-five feet long and six feet wide. Sew five of the curtains together into one set. Sew the remaining six into another set. Fold the sixth curtains in half to hang in front of the tent. Fasten fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set. Make fifty bronze fasteners. Put the fasteners through the loops to link the inner tent together as a single unit. Hang the remaining curtain over the back of the inner tent. Eighteen inches will be left over on each side because of the length of the outer tent's curtains. That should hang over each side in order to cover the inner tent.
You cover yourself with light as with a cloak. You stretch out clouds in the sky like a curtain.
From Thematic Bible
Curtains » Figurative
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
His fearsome army will surround you. They will take your tents and possessions, your sheep and camels.
Enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch your tent curtains wide and do not hold back. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed. The whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly destroyed. Their curtains are torn in an instant.
My tent is destroyed. All the ropes are broken. My children have left me and have disappeared. There is no one to set up my tent again or put up my tent curtains.
Curtains » For the tabernacle
Make a courtyard for the tent (tabernacle). The south side of the courtyard (toward the Negeb) should be one hundred and fifty feet long and have curtains made out of fine linen yarn. Hang on them twenty posts set in twenty copper bases. The hooks and bands on the posts should be made of silver. The north side should be the same one hundred fifty feet long, with curtains on twenty posts set in twenty copper bases. The hooks and bands on the posts should be made of silver. read more.
The courtyard on the west side should be seventy-five wide and have curtains hung on ten posts set in ten bases. On the east end, facing the rising sun, the courtyard should also be seventy-five feet wide. One side of the entrance will be twenty-two and one half feet wide with curtains hung on three posts set in three bases. The other side will be the same. Use four more of these posts for the entrance. Hang on them an embroidered curtain of fine linen ten yards long and woven with blue, purple, and red wool. The curtains that surround the courtyard must be two and a half yards high and should be hung from the bronze posts with silver hooks and rods. The courtyard should be one hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and seven and one half feet high. The curtains should be made of fine linen yarn and with copper bases.
The most skilled men among those doing the work made the Tent of Jehovah's presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures. Each curtain was forty-two feet long and six feet wide. They were all the same size. Five of the curtains were sewn together. The other five were also sewn together. read more.
They made fifty violet loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set. They placed the loops opposite sides of each other. They also made fifty gold fasteners. They used them to link the two sets of curtains together so that the inner tent was a single unit. Eleven curtains were made of goats' hair to form an outer tent over the inner tent. Each of the eleven curtains was forty-five feet long and six feet wide. Five of the curtains were sewn together into one set, and the remaining six into another set. They made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set. Fifty bronze fasteners were also made to link the inner tent together as a single unit.
Curtains » In the palace of ahasuerus
There were hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best (cotton) linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone. The seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.
Tents » Called » Curtains
Enlarge the place of your tent. Stretch your tent curtains wide and do not hold back. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
