Psalm 105:39

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Summary

Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

Spread

1 Corinthians 10:1

General references

Psalm 78:14

Bible References

Spread

In the daytime He led them with a cloud
And all the night with a light of fire.

The [presence of the] Lord was going before them by day in a pillar (column) of cloud to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light, so that they could travel by day and by night.

So it happened at the early morning watch [before dawn], that the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and put them in a state of confusion.

Now on the day that the tabernacle was erected, the cloud [of God’s presence] covered the tabernacle, that is, the tent of the Testimony; and in the evening it was over the tabernacle, appearing like [a pillar of] fire until the morning.

“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light the way for them
In which they were to go.

then the Lord will create over the entire site of Mount Zion and over her assemblies, a cloud by day, smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory and brilliance will be a canopy [a defense, a covering of His divine love and protection].

For I do not want you to be unaware, believers, that our fathers were all under the cloud [in which God’s presence went before them] and they all passed [miraculously and safely] through the [Red] Sea;

General references

So it was continuously; the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

The cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

and what He did to you in the wilderness until you came to this place;

In the daytime He led them with a cloud
And all the night with a light of fire.