22Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: …
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. …
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
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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