Bible Verses About Nomadism

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

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.

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;

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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;

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

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.

They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

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.

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

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

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

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

And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

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

Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said, These have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace.

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.

And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

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.

I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

And there shall dwell in Judah itself, and in all the cities thereof together, husbandmen, and they that go forth with flocks.

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.

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

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.

Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.

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

For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

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.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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.

And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in of the wilderness from the river Euphrates: because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

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:

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.