17And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: …
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. …
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. …
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-23)We have here the history of the cloud; not a natural history: who knows the balancings of the clouds ? but a divine history of a cloud that was appointed to be the visible sign and symbol of God’s presence with Israel. I. When the tabernacle was finished this cloud, which before had hung on high over their camp, settled upon the tabernacle, and covered it, to show that God manifests his presence w…
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