The Bible talks about camping quite a bit, probably because the Patriarchs lived in tents! And of course, David and others lived in tents when they went to battle, and the tabernacle was a tent (the Tent of Meeting). Enjoy this list of verses that are applicable to modern camping!
Bible Verses for Campers
The Israelites are to set up their tents by divisions, each of them in their own camp under their standard.
Numbers 1:52
You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.
Job 5:24
I long to dwell in your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.
Psalm 61:4
Enlarge the place of your tent, stretch your tent curtains wide, do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
Isaiah 54:2
For the Lord your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you.
Deuteronomy 23:14
Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: “The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things!
Psalm 118:15
From him shall come the cornerstone, from him the tent peg, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler—all of them together.
Zachariah 10:4
He [God] covers the sky with clouds;
he supplies the earth with rain
and makes grass grow on the hills.
He provides food for the cattle
and for the young ravens when they call.
Psalm 147:8-9
The cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the camp.
Numbers 10:34
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.
Genesis 32:1
For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock.
Psalm 27:5
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.
Exodus 15:27
Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!
Luke 12:24
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:22
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
Psalm 23:2-3
By faith he [Abraham] made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:9
But ask the animals, and they will teach you,
or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you;
or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
or let the fish in the sea inform you.
Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?
Job 12:7-9
“Watch me,” he [Gideon] told them. “Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do.”
Judges 7:17
No harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent.
Psalm 91:10
So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 13:18
They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord.
2 Samuel 6:17
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
2 Corinthians 5:1
