- Origin and antiquity of Ge 4:20
- CALLED
- Tabernacles Nu 24:5; Job 12:6; Heb 11:9
- Curtains Isa 54:2; Heb 3:7
- Were spread out Isa 40:22
- Fastened by cords to stakes or nails Isa 54:2; Jer 10:20; Jud 4:21
- WERE USED BY
- Patriarchs Ge 13:5; 25:27; Heb 11:9
- Israel in the desert Ex 33:8; Nu 24:2
- The people of Israel in all their wars 1Sa 4:3,10; 29:1; 1Ki 16:16
- The Rechabites Jer 35:7,10
- The Arabs Isa 13:20
- Shepherds while tending their flocks So 1:8; Isa 38:12
- All eastern nations Jud 6:5; 1Sa 17:4; 2Ki 7:7; 1Ch 5:10
- Separate, for females of the family Ge 24:67
- Separate, for the servants Ge 31:33
- WERE PITCHED
- With order and regularity Nu 1:52
- In the neighbourhood of wells, &c Ge 13:10,12; 26:17,18; 1Sa 29:1
- Under trees Ge 18:1,4; Jud 4:5
- On the tops of houses 2Sa 16:22
- Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to De 1:33
- Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to Isa 38:12
- Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs Nu 24:5; So 1:5
- Custom of sitting and standing at the door of Ge 18:1; Jud 4:20
- ILLUSTRATIVE
- (Spread out,) of the heavens Isa 40:22
- (Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church Isa 54:2
The New Topical Text Book
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The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.