FROM TORREY’S TOPICAL TEXTBOOK (1897)

Torrey’s Topical Textbook (1897) — public domain, printed whole.

- 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