43 occurrences

'Tents' in the Bible

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the first of those who live in tents and keep livestock.

Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsSpiritual FathersThose Who Kept Stock

May God enlarge Japheth's territory and numbers! May he live in the tents of Shem and may Canaan be his slave!"

Verse ConceptsEnlargementTents

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

Verse ConceptsTentsOwning LivestockPossessing Sheep

Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

Verse ConceptsTents

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Verse ConceptsAltarsTreesBuilding AltarsOaks

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

Verse ConceptsHuntingQuietnessSkillTentsArchers, MenGrowing UpMen Of PeaceOutside The Houseparenting

And when Moses went out to the tent, all the people would get up and stand at the entrance to their tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.

Verse ConceptsTentsLooking Intently At People

And he said to the community, "Move away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything they have, lest you be destroyed because of all their sins."

Verse ConceptsTentsFellowship With WickedEvil AssociationsSeparation From Evil PeopleNot TouchingHaving No Dealings

So they got away from the homes of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram on every side, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stationed themselves in the entrances of their tents with their wives, their children, and their toddlers.

How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob, and your dwelling places, O Israel!

Verse ConceptsBeautifulJacob, The Patriarchassertiveness

Go and tell them, 'Return to your tents!'

or what he did to Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when the earth opened its mouth in the middle of the Israelite camp and swallowed them, their families, their tents, and all the property they brought with them.

Verse ConceptsSwallowing

You must cook and eat it in the place the Lord your God chooses; you may return the next morning to your tents.

Verse Conceptscooking

Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside, and Issachar, when you are in your tents.

So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.

Verse ConceptsThings Going BeforePriests In Action

The most rewarded of women should be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite! She should be the most rewarded of women who live in tents.

Verse ConceptsExcellent WomenBlessed By GodBlessing Others

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

Verse ConceptsInsectsMany CombatantsLocustsTentsGrasshoppersUncountable

So they got up and fled at dusk, leaving behind their tents, horses, and donkeys. They left the camp as it was and ran for their lives.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who FledLoss Of Donkeys

So they went and called out to the gatekeepers of the city. They told them, "We entered the Syrian camp and there was no one there. We didn't even hear a man's voice. But the horses and donkeys are still tied up, and the tents remain up."

Verse ConceptsCitiesEmpty PlacesLoss Of Donkeys

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem.

if iniquity is in your hand -- put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents.

Verse ConceptsTentsForsaking SinSteadfastnessInjustice

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.

Verse ConceptsSecurityTentsApparent InjusticeThe Wicked Prosperthieves

For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinGodlessnessTentsHypocrisy

For you say, 'Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?'

Verse ConceptsTentsThe Wicked Will Perish

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited!

Verse ConceptsEmpty Places

He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornDeath Of The Firstbornmanhood

It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Certainly spending just one day in your temple courts is better than spending a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the entrance to the temple of my God than live in the tents of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersDoorsProperty, HousesTentsEvil AssociationsOne DayPresented At The DoorwayWe Live With GodDaysgaysBeing GayHaving A Good Daywickedness

They grumbled in their tents; they did not obey the Lord.

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against GodGrumblingComplaining

How miserable I am! For I have lived temporarily in Meshech; I have resided among the tents of Kedar.

Verse ConceptsNomadsI Am Suffering

The Beloved to the Maidens: I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Qedar, lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.

Verse ConceptsAfrican AmericansTapestriesBlack PeopleWomen's BeautyBeauty Of NatureColorThe Beauty Of NatureBeing Beautiful

The Lover to His Beloved: If you do not know, O most beautiful of women, simply follow the tracks of my flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds.

Verse ConceptsBeauty, SpiritualPasturing The Flockfootprints

I see one destruction after another taking place, so that the whole land lies in ruins. I see our tents suddenly destroyed, their curtains torn down in a mere instant.

Verse ConceptsSuddenly

But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutTentsPeople Passing AwayUndoing FasteningsNo One To Be Found

Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.'

Verse ConceptsTentsPlanting VineyardsNot SowingHow To Live Long

We have lived in tents. We have obeyed our ancestor Jonadab and done exactly as he commanded us.

Verse ConceptsObeying People

For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down."'"

Verse ConceptsdefeatBurning Jerusalem

Their tents and their flocks will be taken away. Their tent curtains, equipment, and camels will be carried off. People will shout to them, 'Terror is all around you!'"

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeTaking Possessions

So take note, I am about to make you slaves of the tribes of the east. They will make camps among you and pitch their tents among you. They will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

Verse ConceptsMilkNomadsSeeking Food

He will pitch his royal tents between the seas toward the beautiful holy mountain. But he will come to his end, with no one to help him.

Verse ConceptsAntichristBeauty Of JerusalemPeople EndedNo Help

"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtI Will Be Their God

I see the tents of Cushan overwhelmed by trouble; the tent curtains of the land of Midian are shaking.

Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsGroups Trembling

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