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== Tents and Cities ==

It was [[Cain]]<Ref>[[Genesis 4]]:17  And [[Cain]] knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.</Ref> who built<Ref name="banah">{{01129}}</Ref> the first city.<Ref name="iyr">{{05892}}</Ref>

When the Bible says Cain ''builded a city'' the word translated built<Ref name="banah">{{01129}}</Ref> is the word ‎ ''banah'' (בָּנָה) which is similar to the Hebrew word for son which is ''Ben'' (בֵּן)<Ref name="ben">{{01121}}</Ref> for the heads of these [[city-state]]s were the [[Fathers]] of the [[citizen]]s under the [[civil law]].

Some of these descendants lived in tents.<Ref>[[Genesis 4]]:20  And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and [of such as have] cattle.</Ref>

Abram and Lot lived<Ref>Genesis 13:5  And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.</Ref> in tents<Ref name="ohel">{{0168}}</Ref> but Lot moved to the city of [[Sodom]].

It seems that it was often difficult to find righteous people living in cities.<Ref>[[Genesis 18]]:28  Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].</Ref>

When the [[Pharaoh]] would gather grain for the seven good years he gathered that food in the structure of a city type system.<Ref>[[Genesis 41]]:48  And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which [was] round about every city, laid he up in the same.</Ref> And when the people came to eat his free bread they were removed to those cities.<Ref>[[Genesis 47]]:21  And as for the people, he removed them to cities from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end thereof.</Ref>

Which allowed the Pharaoh to build his ''treasure cities''<Ref>Exodus 1:11  Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.</Ref> which often become [[cities of blood]].

[[Nimrod]] also built the city of [[Babylon]] just like [[Sumer]] and other [[city-state]]s like [[Sodom]] which all had systems of of [[social welfare]] that was a [[snare]] and weakens the [[masses]] through a process of [[degenerate|degeneration]].

=== Living in tents ===

[[Abraham]] and Jacob were ''plain'' or ''mild''<Ref name="tam">{{08535}}</Ref>  men who dwelt in tents<Ref name="ohel">{{0168}}</Ref> .<Ref>[[Genesis 25]]:27  And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob [was] a plain man, dwelling in tents.</Ref> A word for tents in Hebrew is ''oleh'' (אֹהֶל)‎AlefHeyLamed which is identical to the word ‘ahal [[0166]] AlefHeyLamed (אָהַל‎) meaning "to be clear".

The word we see translated ''plain'' or ''mild'' is also translated blameless and given the Strong's number [[08535]]<Ref name="tam">{{08535}}</Ref> and spelled TavMem (תָּם)‎ tam and is said to be from   ''tamam'' (TavMemMem)<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref> and often translated ''consume'' but defined ''complete'' or ''finish''.

The word given the Strong's number [[08537]] but also spelled TavMem (תֹּם)‎ ''tom''<Ref name="tamam">{{08552}}</Ref> is said to mean ''integrity'' and translated ''upright''.
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=== Faith or force ===

The letter combination of TavMem is often appears not translated or referenced in the text. People who did not live under the jurisdiction of the [[city-state]]s where their [[tables|welfare tables]] under the [[benefactors]] who [[exercise authority]] bound the people as [[merchandise|human resources]] did not live by the "flow of faith" which creates the [[social bonds]] of the [[Kingdom of God]], which is an [[intentional community]] that operated through the [[perfect law of liberty]]. 

Besides living in tents rather than cities they also built [[altars]] of [[Clay and Stone]]. Those [[altars]] were not merely piles of stones on which sacrifice were burnt up in a macabre ritual of [[superstition]] but were the alternative to the [[welfare]] systems or [[tables]] of [[rulers]] who offered [[dainties]] of [[free bread]] along with other [[benefits]] to [[snare]] the people under the [[civil law]] or in systems of [[corvee]] that make the people [[merchandise]].

Cities like [[Sumer]] had a system that provided a [[Social safety net]] which would bind the people through the [[civil law]] like we see in [[Sodom]], [[Nimrod]]'s [[Babylon]], or Pharaoh's [[Bondage of Egypt]]. This is also why Jesus condemned the [[Corban]] of the [[Pharisees]] set up by [[Herod]].

Those systems of [[social welfare]] not only [[degenerate]] the [[masses]] and [[curse children]] they empower the rulers which tempts them to become tyrants while [[snare|snaring]] the people as [[merchandise|human resources]] again in the [[bondage of Egypt]] where they [[curse children]].


== Distinction ==

Where do we see a distinction in the use of the terms ''[[tents and cities]]''?

In Genesis Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.<Ref>[[Genesis 13]]:12  Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched [his] tent toward Sodom.</Ref> Even pitching the door of your tent toward [[Sodom]] suggest a subjectivity and subserviency toward the king of ''Sodom'' who had [[merchandise|an ownership of the people]].

In verse one of [[Ezra 2]] the [[captivity]] in [[Babylon]] was like the [[bondage of Egypt]] which was a system of [[Corvee]]. 

When the people are going to their '''cities''' or going to their '''tents''' they are often talking about status in one of two different systems.<Ref>'''Every man to his tents''' 
: [[2 Samuel 20]]:1  And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name [was] Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
: 2 Chronicles 7:10  "And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the LORD had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people."
: 2 Chronicles 31:2  "And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, '''every man according to his service''', the [[priests]] and [[Levites]] for [[burnt offerings]] and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the '''gates of the tents of the LORD'''."
:[[1 Samuel 8]]:5  "And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.... 22  And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, '''Go ye every man unto his city'''."
: [[Exodus 33]]:10  And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand [at] the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and '''worshipped, every man [in] his tent door.'''"
:'''Rehoboam''' [[1 Kings 12]]:4  "Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee... 14  And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father [also] chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions... 16 ¶  So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither [have we] inheritance in the son of Jesse: '''to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.'''"</Ref>

In [[1 Samuel 8]] there were times when the people went back to their ''cities''<Ref name="city">{{05892}}</Ref> and other times the went back to their ''tents''. Also in [[Exodus]] the people had to [[worship]] from their ''tents''. See [[Tents and Cities]]

In  [[1 Kings 11]] we see at the end of the life of King Solomon had this same sin and was warned by the Prophet [[Ahijah]] that as punishment for imposing a [[corvee]] upon the people the Kingdom would be split losing rulership over most of the Tribes of Israel. They would be taken away from his descendants [[(1 Kings 11]]: 11-13) when they would go back to their [[Tents and Cities|own tents]].

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