18 occurrences

'Tents' in the Bible

Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!

Verse ConceptsExcellent WomenBlessed By GodBlessing Others

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

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the east, banding themselves together, went over and put up their tents in the valley of Jezreel.

Verse ConceptseastValleys

Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Rose Earlygideon

So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetTrumpets For BattleSending people homegideon

But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;

Verse ConceptsFear Of Enemies

And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.

Verse ConceptsEnemy Attacks

When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

Verse ConceptsGrainTentsCakesTurning Upside DownDreams Involving Unusual Imagesgideon

Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

Verse ConceptsWorship, Times ForThose God Gave Into Their Handsadorationgideon

And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersGuidance, From Godly Peoplegideon

At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets For Battlegideon

So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken.

Verse ConceptsBeginningNightOne Hundredgideon

Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fledarmy

And Gideon went up by the way used by the people living in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and made an attack on the army when they had no thought of danger.

Verse ConceptsNomadsSecurity

Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesRivers And StreamsArnonRiver ArnonFalling

Then the Philistines went and put up their tents in Judah, all round Lehi.

And they went up and put up their tents in Kiriath-jearim in Judah: so that place is named Mahaneh-dan to this day. It is to the west of Kiriath-jearim.

Verse ConceptsGiven Names To This Day

Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredFour And Five Hundred

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