Nehemiah 9:19

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Summary

Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

In thy

The pillar

1 Corinthians 10:1

General references

Psalm 136:16

Bible References

In thy

And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.

For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people.

Our fathers in Egypt considered not thy wondrous works; they remembered not the multitude of thy loving-kindnesses; but they rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea.

Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for thou art my servant; I have formed thee: thou art my servant, Israel; thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;

But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I had brought them out.

With the Lord our God are mercies and pardons, for we have rebelled against him;

For I Jehovah change not, and ye, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

The pillar

And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night.

For the cloud of Jehovah was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle of the tent of testimony; and at even it was upon the tabernacle as the appearance of fire, until the morning.

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land, who have heard that thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of this people, that thou, Jehovah, lettest thyself be seen eye to eye, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night;

And Jehovah will create over every dwelling-place of mount Zion, and over its convocations, a cloud by day and a smoke, and the brightness of a flame of fire by night: for over all the glory shall be a covering.

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

General references

And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night.

So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and at night it was as the appearance of fire.

And the cloud of Jehovah was over them by day when they set forward out of the camp.

And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.

To him that led his people through the wilderness, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever;