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Texts -- Numbers 9:15-23 (NET)

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The Leading of the Lord
9:15 On the day that the tabernacle was set up , the cloud covered the tabernacle – the tent of the testimony – and from evening until morning there was a fiery appearance over the tabernacle . 9:16 This is the way it used to be continually : The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night . 9:17 Whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle , then after that the Israelites would begin their journey ; and in whatever place the cloud settled , there the Israelites would make camp . 9:18 At the commandment of the Lord the Israelites would begin their journey , and at the commandment of the Lord they would make camp ; as long as the cloud remained settled over the tabernacle they would camp . 9:19 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle many days , then the Israelites obeyed the instructions of the Lord and did not journey . 9:20 When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a number of days , they remained camped according to the Lord’s commandment , and according to the Lord’s commandment they would journey . 9:21 And when the cloud remained only from evening until morning , when the cloud was taken up the following morning , then they traveled on. Whether by day or by night , when the cloud was taken up they traveled . 9:22 Whether it was for two days , or a month , or a year , that the cloud prolonged its stay over the tabernacle , the Israelites remained camped without traveling ; but when it was taken up , they traveled on . 9:23 At the commandment of the Lord they camped , and at the commandment of the Lord they traveled on; they kept the instructions of the Lord according to the commandment of the Lord , by the authority of Moses .

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  • Cloud

    [ebd] The Hebrew so rendered means "a covering," because clouds cover the sky. The word is used as a symbol of the Divine presence, as indicating the splendour of that glory which it conceals (Ex. 16:10; 33:9; Num. 11:25; 12:5; Jo...
    [nave] CLOUD. Figurative Jer. 4:13; Hos. 6:4; 13:3. Symbolical Rev. 14:14. Pillar of Ex. 13:21, 22; Ex. 14:19, 24; Ex. 16:10; Ex. 19:9, 16; Ex. 24:16-18; Ex. 33:9, 10; Ex. 34:5; Ex. 40:36-38; Lev. 16:2; Num. 9:15-23; Num. 10:...

  • TABERNACLE

    [ebd] (1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., "Siccuth"). (3.) The human body (2 Cor. 5:1, 4); a tent, as opposed ...
    [smith] The tabernacle was the tent of Jehovah, called by the same name as the tents of the people in the midst of which it stood. It was also called the sanctuary and the tabernacle of the congregation. The first ordinance given to ...

  • MOSES

    [isbe] MOSES - mo'-zez, mo'-ziz (mosheh; Egyptian mes, "drawn out," "born"; Septuagint Mouse(s)). The great Hebrew national hero, leader, author, law-giver and prophet. I. LIFE 1. Son of Levi 2. Foundling Prince 3. Friend of the Pe...

  • Fire

    [nave] FIRE Used as a signal in war, Jer. 6:1. Furnaces of, Dan. 3:6. Children caused to pass through, 2 Kin. 16:3; 17:17. Miracles coected with: Miraculously descends upon, and consumes, Abraham's sacrifice, Gen. 15:17; David's...

  • God

    [nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...

  • Obedience

    [nave] OBEDIENCE. Gen. 18:19; Ex. 19:5; Ex. 20:6 Deut. 5:10. Ex. 24:7 Josh. 24:24. Num. 9:23; Num. 14:24 Josh. 14:6-14. Josh. 22:2; 1 Kin. 3:14; 2 Kin. 18:6; 2 Kin. 21:8; Neh. 1:5; Psa. 1:2; Psa. 18:44; Psa. 25:10; Psa. 99:7; Psa....

  • NUMBERS, BOOK OF

    [isbe] NUMBERS, BOOK OF - num'-berz: I. TITLE AND CONTENTS 1. Title 2. Contents II. LITERARY STRUCTURE 1. Alleged Grounds of Distribution 2. Objections to Same (1) Hypothesis Unproved (2) Written Record Not Impossible (3) No Book E...

  • DAY

    [isbe] DAY - da (yom; hemera): This common word has caused some trouble to plain readers, because they have not noticed that the word is used in several different senses in the English Bible. When the different uses of the word are...

  • PILLAR

    [isbe] PILLAR - pil'-ar (matstsebhah, `ammudh; stulos): In a good many cases the Revised Version (British and American) substitutes "pillars" for the King James Version "images" (matstsebhoth, Ex 34:13; Dt 7:5; 1 Ki 14:23, etc.). I...

  • TABERNACLE OF TESTIMONY (WITNESS)

    [isbe] TABERNACLE OF TESTIMONY (WITNESS) - (Nu 9:15; 2 Ch 24:6, the Revised Version (British and American) "the tent of the testimony"). See TABERNACLE.

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Expository Notes on the Bible (Constable)

  • "Only voluntary gifts were acceptable as materials for the Lord's house (25:2; 35:3, 21-22, 29), since love rather than compulsion is the basis of all truly biblical giving (2 Cor. 9:7)."431Moses employed four different terms...
  • When the book opens the Israelites were in the second month of the second year after they departed from Egypt (1:1). In chapters 7-10 we read things that happened in the nation before that. These things happened when Moses fi...
  • To formulate a statement that summarizes the teaching of this book it will be helpful to identify some of the major revelations in Numbers. These constitute the unique values of the book.The first major value of Numbers is th...
  • I. Experiences of the older generation in the wilderness chs. 1-25A. Preparations for entering the Promised Land from the south chs. 1-101. The first census and the organization of the people chs. 1-42. Commands and rituals t...
  • The time had come for the Israelites to resume their journey when the people had celebrated the Passover. All that remained for the Israelites to know was how God would lead them. Moses recorded God's revelation of that in th...
  • God ordered that priests should announce His movement of the people by blowing two silver trumpets because the Israelites would not watch the cloud continuously. The blasts from the trumpets would reach the farthest tents in ...
  • 8:12 The context of the events in this paragraph continues to be the temple during the feast of Tabernacles (v. 20, cf. 7:14). Jesus was speaking to the Jews who had assembled there some of whom were residents of Jerusalem an...
  • 21:11 This city obviously appeared extremely impressive to John. The first and most important characteristic that John noted was its radiant glow. It shone with the splendor of God Himself because He was in it (cf. Exod. 40:3...

Expositions Of Holy Scripture (Maclaren)

  • So it was alway : the cloud covered [the tabernacle] by day, and the appearance of fire by night.', Num. 9:16.THE children of Israel in the wilderness, surrounded by miracle, had nothing which we do not possess. They had some...
  • I am the light of the world: he that followeth Me shall not walk In darkness, but shall have the light of life.'--John 8:12.JESUS CHRIST was His own great theme. Whatever be the explanation of the fact, there stands the fact ...
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