New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Tents

• Origin and antiquity of Gen. 4:20
• Called
  • Tabernacles Num. 24:5; Job 12:6; Heb. 11:9
  • Curtains Isa. 54:2; Hab. 3:7
• Were spread out Isa. 40:22
• Fastened by cords to stakes or nails Isa. 54:2; Jer. 10:20; Judg. 4:21
• Were used by
  • Patriarchs Gen. 13:5, 25:27; Heb. 11:9
  • Israel in the desert Ex. 33:8; Num. 24:2
  • The people of Israel in all their wars 1 Sam. 4:3, 10, 29:1; 1 Ki. 16:16
  • The Rechabites Jer. 35:7, 10
  • The Arabs Isa. 13:20
  • Shepherds while tending their flocks Song 1:8; Isa. 38:12
  • All eastern nations Judg. 6:5; 1 Sam. 17:4; 2 Ki. 7:7; 1 Chr. 5:10
• Separate, for females of the family Gen. 24:67
• Separate, for the servants Gen. 31:33
• Were pitched
  • With order and regularity Num. 1:52
  • In the neighborhood of wells, &c Gen. 13:10, 12, 26:17, 18; 1 Sam. 29:1
  • Under trees Gen. 18:1, 4; Judg. 4:5
  • On the tops of houses 2 Sam. 16:22
• Sending persons to seek a convenient place for, alluded to Dt. 1:33
• Ease and rapidity of their removal, alluded to Isa. 38:12
• Of the Jews contrasted with those of the Arabs Num. 24:5; Song 1:5
• Custom of sitting and standing at the door of Gen. 18:1; Judg. 4:20
• Illustrative
  • (Spread out,) of the heavens Isa. 40:22
  • (Enlarging of,) of the great extension of the Church Isa. 54:2