79 Bible Verses about Tents

And Adah bare Jabal, - he, was father of such as dwell in tents, and have cattle;

And he moved on from thence towards the hill country, on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, - with Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east, and bulk there an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

Abram, fixed his dwelling in the land of Canaan, - but, Lot, fixed his dwelling among the cities, of the circuit, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

And Yahweh appeared unto him among the oaks of Mamre, - as, he, was sitting at the opening of the tent in the heat of the day.

And when the youths grew up, it came to pass that Esau was a man skilled in game a man of the field, - but, Jacob, was a ready man, dwelling in tents.

So then Moses heard the people weeping by their families, every one at the entrance of his tent, - then kindled the anger of Yahweh fiercely, and in the eyes of Moses, it was grievous.

So the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his home; and the slaughter became exceeding great, - and there fell of Israel - thirty thousand footmen.

Now, in that place, there happened to be an abandoned man, whose name, was Sheba son of Bichri, a man of Benjamin, - so he blew a horn, and said - We have no share in David, Nor inheritance have we in the son of Jesse, Every man to his home, O Israel!

So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying - What portion have, we, in, David. Or inheritance in the son of Jesse? To your homes O Israel! Now, see to thine own house, O David! And Israel departed to their homes.

And Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother; thus he took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her, - and Isaac consoled himself, for the loss of his mother.

Then entered Laban into the tent of Jacob and into the tent of Leah and into the tent of the two handmaids, and found nothing, - then went he forth out of the tent of Leah, and entered into the tent of Rachel.

Now, Sisera, had fled on foot, unto the tent of Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazer, and the house of Heber the Kenite. And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him: Turn aside, my lord, turn aside with me, do not fear. So he turned aside with her into the tent, and she threw over him a coverlet.

So they brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent which David had stretched out for it, - and David caused to go up ascending-sacrifices before Yahweh, and peace-offerings.

So they brought in the ark of God, and placed it in the midst of the tent, which David had pitched for it, - and they brought near ascending-sacrifices and peace-offerings, before God.

that the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See, I pray thee - I, have my abode in a house, of cedar, but, the ark of God, abideth in, the midst, of curtains.

And he made him houses, in the city of David, - and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

Howbeit, the ark of God, had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim, into the place that David had prepared for it, - for he had pitched for it a tent, in Jerusalem.

for, they with their cattle, used to come up, with their tents - yea they used to come like locusts, for multitude, both they and their cattle, were without number, - so they came into the land, to lay it waste.

God give extension to Japheth, But make his habitation in the tents of Shem, And let Canaan be their servant.

And Gideon came in, and lo! a man relating to his neighbour a dream, - and he said - Lo! a dream, have I dreamt, and lo! a round cake of barley bread tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came as far as the tent - and smote it that it fell, and turned it upside down, and the tent lay along.

Under distress, saw I the tents of Ethiopia, - tremble, do the curtains of the land of Midian.

all their cities also in their sites, and all their encampments, burned they up with fire.

So they arose, and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, - the camp, just as it was, - and fled for their lives. When, therefore, these lepers came in as far as the outskirts of the camp, they entered into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried from thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went away and hid them, - and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried from thence - and went and hid them.

And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it into Jerusalem, - but, his armour, put he into his tent.

When I saw among the spoil a certain goodly mantle of Babylonia and two hundred shekels of silver and a certain wedge of gold - fifty shekels the weight thereof, then I coveted them, then I took them, - and, there they are, hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent, - and, there it was, hid in his tent, and, the silver, under it. And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them in unto Joshua, and unto all the sons of Israel, - and poured them out before Yahweh.

nor house, shall ye build nor, seed, shall ye sow, nor vineyard, shall ye plant, neither shall ye have them, - but in tents, shall ye dwell, all your days, that ye may live many days on the face of the soil where ye are sojourning.

By faith, he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, in tents, dwelling, along with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise; For he was awaiting the city having foundations, whose architect and builder is, God.

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

And Yahweh appeared unto him among the oaks of Mamre, - as, he, was sitting at the opening of the tent in the heat of the day. And he lifted up his eyes and looked, and lo! three men, standing over against him, - so he looked and ran to meet them from the opening of the tent, and bowed himself to the earth; and said, - O My Lord! if, I pray thee, I have found favour in thine eyes, do not I pray thee pass on from thy servant.read more.
Let there be fetched, I pray thee a little water, and bathe ye your feet, - and rest yourselves under the tree. And let me fetch a morsel of bread, and stay ye your heart, Afterwards, ye may pass on, For on this account, have ye passed by, over against your servant. And they said, Thus, shalt thou do as thou hast spoken. So Abraham hastened towards the tent unto Sarah, - and said, Hasten thou three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make hearth-cakes.

And so it came to pass when the Gods caused me to wander from my fathers house, that I said to her, This, is thy lovingkindness, wherewith thou shalt deal with me, - Into what-soever place we enter, say of me My brother, is he.

This, is the thing which Yahweh hath commanded, Gather ye thereof, each man what he needeth for eating, - an omer a head, by the number of your souls, each man - for them who are in his tent, shall ye take.

And it came about, that, when Moses went out unto the tent, all the people used to rise up, and station themselves every man at the opening of his tent, - and they watched Moses, until he entered the tent.

But do, thou thyself, put the Levites in charge over the habitation of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof and over all that pertaineth thereto, they, shall bear the habitation, and all the furniture thereof, and they, shall attend thereupon; and, round about the habitation, shall they encamp.

They who hate thee, shall be clothed with shame, but, the tent of the lawless, shall not be!

and dank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself in the midst of his tent.

And he spake unto the assembly, saying - Remove I pray you from beside the tents of these lawless men, and do not touch aught that pertaineth unto them, - lest ye be carried off, in all their sins.

And they went forth at noon. Now, Ben-hadad, was drinking himself drunk, in the pavilions, he and the thirty-two kings helping him.

Is not their tent-rope within them, torn away? They die, disrobed of wisdom!

If, iniquity, be in thy hand, Put it far away, and let there not dwell in thy tents perversity,

At peace are the tents that belong to the spoilers, and there is security to them who provoke GOD, To him who bringeth a god in his hand.

For, the family of the impious, is unfruitful, and, a fire, hath devoured the tents of bribery;

The light, hath darkened in his tent, Yea, his lamp above him, goeth out;

For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? And where the dwelling-tent of the lawless?

If thou return unto the Almighty and submit thyself, if thou far remove perversity from thy tent,

For better is a day in thy courts, than a thousand, I choose rather to stand at the threshold in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of lawlessness.

and, because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought, for they were tent-makers by their trade.

And thou shalt make curtains of goat's hair, for a tent, over the habitation - eleven curtains, shalt thou make them.

And he made curtains of goats-hair, for the tent over the habitation, eleven curtains, did he make them:

And thou shalt make a covering, for the tent, of rams skins dyed red, - and a covering of badger's skins, above. And thou shalt make boards for the habitation, - of acacia wood to stand up: ten cubits, the length of the board, and a cubit and a half cubit the breadth of each board:read more.
two tenons, to each board, united one to another, - thus, shalt thou make, for all the boards of the habitation, So then thou shalt make the boards for the habitation, twenty boards, on the south side southwards. And forty sockets of silver, shalt thou make under the twenty boards, - two sockets under the one board for its two tenons, and two sockets, under the next board, for its two tenons. And on the second side of the habitation, towards the north, twenty boards; and their forty sockets of silver, - two sockets, under the one board, and, two sockets, under the next board. And for the hinderpart of the habitation, westward, shalt thou make six boards. And, two boards, shalt thou make, for the comers of the habitation, - in the hinderpart: that they may be double beneath, and at the same time, they shall be entire on the top thereof, into each ring, - thus, shall it be for them both, for the two corners, shall they be. So shall they be eight boards, and, their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, - two sockets, under the one board, and, two sockets, under the next board. And thou shalt make bars, of acacia wood, - five, for the boards of the one side of the habitation, and five bars, for the boards of the other side of the habitation, and five bars, for the boards of the side of the habitation, at the hinderpart westward; with the middle bar in the midst of the boards, - running along from end to end. And the boards, shalt thou overlay with gold, and their rings, shalt thou make of gold, as receptacles for the bars, - and thou shalt overlay the liars with gold.

And he made a covering to the tent, of rams skins dyed red, - and a covering of badgers skins, above. And he made the boards for the habitation, of acacia wood, for standing up: ten cubits, the length of each board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board:read more.
two tenons to each board, united one to another, - thus, made he for all the boards of the habitation. And he made the boards for the habitation, twenty boards, for the south side southwards; and, forty sockets of silver, made he, under the twenty boards, two sockets, under the first board, for its two tenons, and, two sockets, under the next board for its two tenons. And for the second side of the habitation to the north quarter, made he twenty boards; and their forty sockets of silver, two sockets, under the first board, and, two sockets, under the next board. And, for the hinder part of the habitation westward, made he six boards; and two boards, made he for the corners of the habitation, - in the hinderpart. Thus were they to be double beneath, and at the same time, should they be entire, at the top thereof, into each ring, thus, did he for them both, for the two corners. Thus were there to be eight boards, and, their sockets of silver, were sixteen sockets, two sockets apiece under each board. And he made bars of acacia wood, - five, for the boards of the first side of the habitation, and five bars, for the boards of the other side of the habitation, and, five bars, for the boards of the habitation at the hinderpart westward. And he made the middle bar, - to run along in the midst of the boards, from end to end. And the boards, overlaid he with gold and their rings, made he of gold, as receptacles for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.

All the utensils of the habitation, throughout all the service thereof, - and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, of bronze.

the pins of the habitation, and the pins of the court, and their cords;

And, all the pins for the habitation, and for the court round about, of bronze.

the hangings of the court its pillars and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, its cords and its pins, - and all the utensils for the service of the habitation for the tent of meeting;

and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the court which was near the habitation and near the altar, round about, - and the cords thereof, as to all the laborious work thereof.

and the pillars of the court round about and their sockets anti their pins and their cords, to the extent of all their articles, to the extent of all their labour, and by names, shall ye put under their care the articles of their charge of burdens.

Then took Jael, wife of Heber, the tent-pin, and put the mallet in her hand, and went in unto him, softly, and smote the tent-pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground, - he being fast asleep and shrouded in darkness, and he died.

In that day, - Declareth Yahweh of hosts Shall the peg, give way, that was fastened in a sure place, - Yea it shall be cut off and fall And the burden that was upon it shall perish, For, Yahweh, hath spoken!

From him, the commander, from him, the supporter, from him, the war-bow, - from him, shall proceed every one that driveth on, together;

And thou shalt make a covering, for the tent, of rams skins dyed red, - and a covering of badger's skins, above.

My tent, is laid waste, And all my tent-cords, are broken, - My children, are gone forth from me and they, are not. There is none, To stretch out any more my tent, Or to set up my curtains.

So he builded there all altar and called on the name of Yahweh, and spread out there, his rent, - and the servants of Isaac cut out there a well.

And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread out his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, - for a hundred kesitahs.

Now, Heber the Kenite, had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the sons of Hobab, father-in-law of Moses, - and moved his tent as far as the oak of Zaanaim, which is near Kadesh.

And they stretched out for Absolom a tent, upon the house-top, - and Absolom went in unto his father's concubines, in the sight of all Israel.

Putting on light, as a robe, Stretching out the heavens, as a curtain;

Yet through all the earth, hath gone forth their voice, - and, to the end of the world, their sayings, - For the sun, hath he set up a tent therein;

For we know that - -if, our earthly tent-dwelling, should be taken down, we have, a building of God, a dwelling not made by hand, age-abiding in the heavens.

Right, nevertheless, I account it - as long as I am in this tent, to be stirring you up by putting you in remembrance, Knowing that, speedy, is the putting off of my tent - even as, our Lord Jesus Christ also, made clear to me:

So shall they make for me a sanctuary, - and I will make my habitation in their midst: according to all that, I, am shewing thee, the pattern of the habitation, and the pattern of all the furnishings thereof, even so, shall ye make it.

Also the habitation shalt thou make, with ten curtains, of twined linen, and blue, and purple, and crimson, with cherubim, the work of a skilful weaver, shalt thou make them. The length of each curtain twenty-eight cubits, and, the breadth four cubits, of each curtain, one measure, for all the curtains. The five curtains, shall be joined, one to another, and, the other five curtains, joined, one to another.read more.
And thou shalt make loops of blue on the border of each curtain, at the edge of the set, - and, thus, shalt thou do in the border of the curtain, that is outmost in the second set: fifty loops, shalt thou make, in the one curtain, and fifty loops, shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain which is in the second set, the loops being opposite, one to another. And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, - so shalt thou join the curtains one to another, with the clasps, and thus shall the habitation be one. And thou shalt make curtains of goat's hair, for a tent, over the habitation - eleven curtains, shalt thou make them. The length of each curtain, thirty cubits, and the breadth, four cubits, of each curtain, - one measure, to the eleven curtains. And thou shalt join the five curtains by themselves, and the six curtains by themselves, and thou shalt fold back the sixth curtain, in the forefront of the tent. And thou shalt make fifty loops on the border of the one curtain, that is outmost in the set, and fifty loops on the border of the curtain, of the second set. And thou shalt make fifty clasps of bronze, and bring the clasps into the loops, so shalt thou join the tent, and it shall be one. And the overplus that remaineth in the curtains of the tent, - the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over at the back of the habitation. And, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side of that which remaineth, in the length of the curtains of the tent shall be hung over the sides of the habitation on this side and on that side to make a covering. And thou shalt make a covering, for the tent, of rams skins dyed red, - and a covering of badger's skins, above. And thou shalt make boards for the habitation, - of acacia wood to stand up: ten cubits, the length of the board, and a cubit and a half cubit the breadth of each board: two tenons, to each board, united one to another, - thus, shalt thou make, for all the boards of the habitation, So then thou shalt make the boards for the habitation, twenty boards, on the south side southwards. And forty sockets of silver, shalt thou make under the twenty boards, - two sockets under the one board for its two tenons, and two sockets, under the next board, for its two tenons. And on the second side of the habitation, towards the north, twenty boards; and their forty sockets of silver, - two sockets, under the one board, and, two sockets, under the next board. And for the hinderpart of the habitation, westward, shalt thou make six boards. And, two boards, shalt thou make, for the comers of the habitation, - in the hinderpart: that they may be double beneath, and at the same time, they shall be entire on the top thereof, into each ring, - thus, shall it be for them both, for the two corners, shall they be. So shall they be eight boards, and, their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets, - two sockets, under the one board, and, two sockets, under the next board. And thou shalt make bars, of acacia wood, - five, for the boards of the one side of the habitation, and five bars, for the boards of the other side of the habitation, and five bars, for the boards of the side of the habitation, at the hinderpart westward; with the middle bar in the midst of the boards, - running along from end to end. And the boards, shalt thou overlay with gold, and their rings, shalt thou make of gold, as receptacles for the bars, - and thou shalt overlay the liars with gold. So shalt thou rear up the habitation, according to the fashion thereof, which thou wast caused to see in the mount. And thou shalt make a veil, of blue and purple, and crimson and fine-twined linen, - of the work of a skilful weaver, shall it be made, with cherubim; and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with their hooks of gold, - upon four sockets of silver, And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, - and shalt bring in thither, within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall make a division for you between the holy place and the most holy. And thou shalt place the propitiatory, upon the ark of the testimony, - in the most holy place . And thou shalt set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table, on the side of the habitation, southward, - and the table, shalt thou place on the north side. And thou shalt make a screen for the opening of the tent, of blue, and purple and crimson, and fine-twined linen, - the work of an embroiderer. And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and shalt overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold, - and thou shalt cast for them five sockets of bronze.

Thus was finished all the work of the habitation of the tent of meeting, - thus did the sons of Israel, according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so, did they.

In the tent of meeting, outside the veil which is by the testimony, shall Aaron and his sons order it from evening until morning, before Yahweh, - a statute age-abiding, to their generations, from the sons of Israel.

And, Moses, proceeded to take a tent, and pitch it by itself outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and he called it, The Tent of Meeting, - and so it came to pass that whosoever was seeking Yahweh went out unto the tent of meeting, which was on the outside of the camp.

so shall they be upon Aaron and upon his sons, when they go into the tent of meeting, or when they approach unto the altar, to minister in the holy place, lest they bear iniquity, and die, - a statute age-abiding, to him and to his seed after him.

And thou shalt bring near the bullock, before the tent of meeting, - and Aaron and his sons shall lean their hands upon the head of the bullock; then shalt thou slay the bullock before Yahweh, - at the opening of the tent of meeting:

Thus Yahweh used to speak unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend, - and when he returned unto the camp, his attendant Joshua son of Nun, a young man, moved not from the midst of the tent.

Then called he unto Moses, - and Yahweh spake unto him, out of the tent of meeting, saying:

Then spake Yahweh unto Moses in the desert of Sinai in the tent of meeting, - on the first of the second month in the second year by their coming forth out of the land of Egypt saying: