Bible Verses About Nomadic Life

For I have not dwelt in an house since the day that I brought up Israel unto this day; but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

And what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds;

Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth–lehem–judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;

For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord God.

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.