Exodus 13:21
And 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.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
20And the children of Israel departed from Socchoth, and encamped in Othom by the wilderness.
22And the pillar of cloud failed not by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before all the people.
Cross References
Exodus 14:19And the angel of God that went before the camp of the children of Israel removed and went behind, and the pillar of the cloud also removed from before them and stood behind them.
Exodus 33:9And when Moses entered into the tabernacle, the pillar of the cloud descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and God talked to Moses.
Exodus 40:38For a cloud was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before all Israel, in all their + 40:38 Or, preparations etc. journeyings.
Numbers 9:16So it was continually: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.
Numbers 14:14Moreover all the dwellers upon this land have heard that you are Lord in the midst of this people, who, O Lord, are seen by them face to face, and your cloud rests upon them, and you go before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire.
Nehemiah 9:12And you guided 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.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 13:18-22
The Pillar of Fire and Fire. ( b. c. 1491.) 17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: 18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly… Read the whole commentary →