Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;
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Gill's Exposition
Enlarge the place of thy tent,.... To which the church is compared, because of its uncertain and movable condition, being sometimes in one place, and sometimes in another; and because of its outward…
Barnes' Notes
Enlarge the place of thy tent - The same idea occurs in Isa 49:19-20 (see the notes at that chapter). The curtains of thy habitations. The word ‘curtain’ does not quite express the sense here. It is…
If we apply this to the state of the Jews after their return out of captivity, it is a prophecy of the increase of their nation after they were settled in their own land. Jerusalem had been in the…
Cambridge Bible
The idea of the verse is expressed in Isa 49:20-21; for the figure of the tent (in an opposite sense) cf. Jer 10:20.
The curtainsare the tent-hangings (Jer 49:29; Hab 3:7), the stakes, the tent-pegs…
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