21And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
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Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; …
Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Here is, I. The choice God made of their way, Exod. 13:17 , 18 . He was their guide. Moses gave them direction but as he received it from the Lord. Note, The way of man is not in himself, Jer. 10:23. He may devise his way , and design it; but, after all, it is God that directs his steps , Prov. 16:9. Man proposes, but God disposes, and in his disposal we must acquiesce, and set ourselves to follow…
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