Lexicon :: Strong's G4638 - skēnōma

He said about Zebulun:

Rejoice, Zebulun, in your journeys,

and Issachar, in your tents.

When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of the people.

So Gideon sent all the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred troops, who took the provisions and their rams’ horns. The camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

The man got up to go with his concubine and his servant, when his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, night is coming. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, enjoy yourself, then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey and go home.”

Then all the people stood united and said, “None of us will go to his tent or return to his house.

So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was severe ​— ​thirty thousand of the Israelite foot soldiers fell.

He chose three thousand men from Israel for himself: two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in Bethel’s hill country, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the troops away, each to his own tent.

David took Goliath’s[fn] head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put Goliath’s weapons in his own tent.

And who is like your people Israel? God came to one nation on earth in order to redeem a people for himself, to make a name for himself, and to perform for them[fn] great and awesome acts,[fn] driving out nations and their gods before your people you redeemed for yourself from Egypt.

They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and raised up a huge mound of stones over him. And all Israel fled, each to his tent.

So the king got up and sat in the city gate, and all the people were told, “Look, the king is sitting in the city gate.” Then they all came into the king’s presence.

Meanwhile, each Israelite had fled to his tent.

Now a wicked man, a Benjaminite named Sheba son of Bichri, happened to be there. He blew the ram’s horn and shouted:

We have no portion in David,

no inheritance in Jesse’s son.

Each man to his tent,[fn] Israel!

The woman went to all the people with her wise counsel, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the ram’s horn, and they dispersed from the city, each to his own tent. Joab returned to the king in Jerusalem.

The news reached Joab. Since he had supported Adonijah but not Absalom, Joab fled to the LORD’s tabernacle and took hold of the horns of the altar.

The priests and the Levites brought the ark of the LORD, the tent of meeting, and the holy utensils that were in the tent.

On the fifteenth day[fn] he sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went to their homes[fn] rejoicing and with happy hearts for all the goodness that the LORD had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.

When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered him:

What portion do we have in David?

We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.

Israel, return to your tents;

David, now look after your own house!

So Israel went to their tents,

So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.

Therefore, the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped from the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel returned to their former way of life,[fn]

Judah was routed before Israel, and each man fled to his own tent.

They received help against these enemies because they cried out to God in battle, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. He was receptive to their prayer because they trusted in him.

On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people home,[fn] rejoicing and with happy hearts for the goodness the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for his people Israel.

When all Israel saw[fn] that the king had not listened to them, the people answered the king:

What portion do we have in David?

We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.

Israel, each to your tent;

David, look after your own house now!

So all Israel went to their tents.

for the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons refused to let them serve as priests of the LORD.

So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his commanders and all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders.

Judah was routed before Israel, and each man fled to his own tent.

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house? ”

and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in? ”

I made the desert its home,

and the salty wasteland its dwelling.

LORD, who can dwell in your tent?

Who can live on your holy mountain?

Their message[fn] has gone out to the whole earth,

and their words to the ends of the world.

In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun.

LORD, I love the house where you dwell,

the place where your glory resides.

Send your light and your truth; let them lead me.

Let them bring me to your holy mountain,

to your dwelling place.

There is a river —

its streams delight the city of God,

the holy dwelling place of the Most High.

Their graves are their permanent homes,[fn]

their dwellings from generation to generation,

though they have named estates after themselves.

This is why God will bring you down forever.

He will take you, ripping you out of your tent;

he will uproot you from the land of the living.Selah

I will dwell in your tent forever

and take refuge under the shelter of your wings.Selah

Make their fortification desolate;

may no one live in their tents.

They set your sanctuary on fire;

they utterly[fn] desecrated

the dwelling place of your name.

He made them fall in the camp,

all around the tents.

He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

He drove out nations before them.

He apportioned their inheritance by lot

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,

the tent where he resided among mankind.

He rejected the tent of Joseph

and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

How lovely is your dwelling place,

LORD of Armies.

Better a day in your courts

than a thousand anywhere else.

I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God

than live in the tents of wicked people.

The LORD loves Zion’s city gates

more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

no harm will come to you;

no plague will come near your tent.

They grumbled in their tents

and did not listen to the LORD.

What misery that I have stayed in Meshech,[fn]

that I have lived among the tents of Kedar![fn]