Treasury of Scripture
hanging. This may be termed the first vail, as it occupied the door or entrance to the tabernacle; the vail that separated the Holy of Holies is called the second vail. He.
Exodus 9:3 Behold, the hand of the LORD is on your cattle which is in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the oxen...
. Mr. Morier, describing the tent of a chief of the Eelauts, says, 'It was composed of a wooden frame of circular laths, which were fixed on the ground, and then covered over with large felts, that were fastened down by a cord, ornamented by tassels of various colours. A curtain, curiously worked by the women, with coarse needle-work of various colours, was suspended over the door. In the king of Persia's tents, magnificent perdahs, or hangings of needle-work, are suspended, as well as on the doors of the great mosques in Turkey; and these circumstances combined, will, perhaps, illustrate
Exodus 26:36 And you shall make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen...
Exodus 36:37 And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Exodus 40:28 And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me.
the tent
Exodus 35:11 The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his clasps, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
Exodus 39:33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his clasps, his boards, his bars, and his pillars...
Exodus 40:29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation...
Numbers 3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof...
Numbers 9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony...
2 Samuel 7:6 Whereas I have not dwelled in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day...
Psalm 78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
of blue
Exodus 26:31 And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubim shall it be made: