Numbers 9:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.

Abode

General references

Exodus 40:37

Numbers 9:16

Psalm 136:16

Bible References

Abode

[Whenever] the cloud lifted up from on the tent, after that the {Israelites} would set out, and in the place where the cloud dwelled, there the {Israelites} camped.

And the {Israelites} did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses.

And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the {Israelites} did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the {Israelites} did to them.

He has no regard [for] evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God [is] with him, and a shout of a king [is] among them.

According to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the {Israelites} did all the work.

And Moses did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him; so he did.

"Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, {saying}, 'You have stayed {long enough} at this mountain.

'[Long] enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north,

I will instruct you and teach you in [the] way that you should go. I will advise [you] [with] my eye upon you.

that this [is] God, our God forever and ever. {He himself} will guide us until death.

You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me [into] honor.

You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

and led them by a straight way to get to a city to inhabit.

Teach me to do your will, for you [are] my God; your Spirit [is] good. Lead me onto level ground.

{Trust Yahweh} with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding.

And [while he] was with [them], he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what was promised by the Father, which you heard about from me.

General references

But if the cloud was not lifted, they did not set out until the day of its being lifted.

So it was continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire [by] night.

To [him who] led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love [endures] forever.