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19And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.

Numbers 9:19

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Matthew Henry

(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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