Numbers 9:16
So it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 13:21And God led them, in the day by a pillar of cloud, to show them the way, and in the night by a pillar of fire.
Numbers 9:18The children of Israel shall encamp by the command of the Lord, and by the command of the Lord they shall remove: all the days in which the cloud overshadows the tabernacle, the children of Israel shall encamp.
Nehemiah 9:12And thou guidedst them by day by a pillar of cloud, and by night by a pillar of fire, to enlighten for them the way wherein they should walk.
Isaiah 4:5And he shall come, and it shall be with regard to every place of mount Sion, yea, all the region round about it shall a cloud overshadow by day, and there shall be as it were the smoke and light of fire burning by night: and upon all the glory shall be a defence.
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 →