Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 9:15

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 9:15 - 9:15

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Numbers 9:15 - 9:15

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9:1 - 9:1
9:2 - 9:2
9:6 - 9:6
9:8 - 9:8
9:14 - 9:14
9:15 - 9:15
9:17 - 9:17
9:19 - 9:19

Num 9:15-23. A cloud guides the Israelites.

the cloud covered the tabernacle - The inspired historian here enters on an entirely new subject, which might properly have formed a separate chapter, beginning at this verse and ending at Num 10:29 [Calmet]. The cloud was a visible token of God’s special presence and guardian care of the Israelites (Exo 14:20; Psa 105:39). It was easily distinguishable from all other clouds by its peculiar form and its fixed position; for from the day of the completion of the tabernacle it rested by day as a dark, by night as a fiery, column on that part of the sanctuary which contained the ark of the testimony (Lev 16:2).