Numbers 9:17

And when the cloud that was protecting the tabernacle had been taken up, then the sons of Israel advanced forward, and in the place where the cloud had remained standing, there they made camp.

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In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

16This was so continually: throughout the day a cloud covered it, and throughout the night, the appearance of fire.

18Upon the order of the Lord they advanced, and upon his order they fixed the tabernacle. All the days during which the cloud was standing over the tabernacle, they remained in the same place.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:1And so, the entire multitude of the sons of Israel, having set out from the desert of Sin in stages, according to the word of the Lord, made camp at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

Exodus 40:36Certainly, the cloud of the Lord lay over the tabernacle by day, and the fire by night, being seen by all the people of Israel throughout all their resting places.

Numbers 10:11In the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle of the covenant.

Psalms 32:8Let all the earth fear the Lord, and may all the inhabitants of the world quake before him.

Psalms 80:1Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself.

John 10:3To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name, and he leads them out.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 9:16-23

The Pillar of Cloud and Fire. ( b. c. 1490.) 15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. 16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. 17 And 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… Read the whole commentary →

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