Origin and antiquity of
Genesis 4:20
CALLED Tabernacles
Numbers 24:5; Job 12:6; Hebrews 11:9
Curtains
Isaiah 54:2; Hebrews 3:7
Were spread out
Isaiah 40:22
Fastened by cords to stakes or nails
Isaiah 54:2; Jeremiah 10:20; Judges 4:21
WERE USED BY Patriarchs
Genesis 13:5; 25:27; Hebrews 11:9
Israel in the desert
Exodus 33:8; Numbers 24:2
The people of Israel in all their wars
1 Samuel 4:3,10; 29:1; 1 Kings 16:16
The Rechabites
Jeremiah 35:7,10
The Arabs
Isaiah 13:20
Shepherds while tending their flocks
Song of Solomon 1:8; Isaiah 38:12
All eastern nations
Judges 6:5; 1 Samuel 17:4; 2 Kings 7:7; 1 Chronicles 5:10
Separate, for females of the family
Genesis 24:67
Separate, for the servants
Genesis 31:33
WERE PITCHED With order and regularity
Numbers 1:52
In the neighbourhood of wells, &c
Genesis 13:10,12; 26:17,18; 1 Samuel 29:1
Under trees
Genesis 18:1,4; Judges 4:5
On the tops of houses
2 Samuel 16:22
Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to
Deuteronomy 1:33
Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to
Isaiah 38:12
Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs
Numbers 24:5; Song of Solomon 1:5
Custom of sitting and standing at the door of
Genesis 18:1; Judges 4:20
ILLUSTRATIVE (Spread out,) of the heavens
Isaiah 40:22
(Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church
Isaiah 54:2