Nehemiah 9:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.

The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.

Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.

Remember these things, O Jacob, O Israel, for you are my servant. I formed you to be my servant; O Israel, I will not forget you!

(Khet) The Lord's loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.

I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

"Since, I, the Lord, do not go back on my promises, you, sons of Jacob, have not perished.

The pillar

You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

Now the Lord was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.

For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, but fire would be on it at night, in plain view of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

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.

then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, Lord, are among this people, that you, Lord, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over its convocations a cloud and smoke by day and a bright flame of fire by night; indeed a canopy will accompany the Lord's glorious presence.

For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,

General references

Now the Lord was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night.

This is the way it used to be continually: The cloud would cover it by day, and there was a fiery appearance by night.

And the cloud of the Lord was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.

He led them with a cloud by day, and with the light of a fire all night long.

to the one who led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love endures,