7And Moses took the tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to pass, that every one which sought the LORD went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.
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Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: …
The LORD is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee. …
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-11)Here is, I. One mark of displeasure put upon them for their further humiliation: Moses took the tabernacle , not his own tent for his family, but the tent wherein he gave audience, heard causes, and enquired of God, the guild-hall (as it were) of their camp, and pitched it without, afar off from the camp (Exod. 33:7), to signify to them that they had rendered themselves unworthy of it, and that, u…
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