Exodus 40:36

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

³⁴Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. ³⁵Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. ³⁶Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.³⁷If the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was taken up. ³⁸For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

when: Exodus 13:21, Exodus 13:22, Numbers 10:11-13, Numbers 10:33-36, Numbers 19:17-22, Nehemiah 9:19, Psalms 78:14, Psalms 105:39, 1 Corinthians 10:1, 2 Corinthians 5:19, 2 Corinthians 5:20

went onward: Heb. journeyed

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:17 - when the cloud Numbers 9:22 - abode Numbers 10:12 - took

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle,.... By the Lord himself, or it removed by his order, that is, rose up and stood above the tabernacle, and appeared in the form of a pillar, and went before it:

the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys; the motion of the cloud was a direction to set forward and continue their journey as long as it lasted; but when it rested and abode upon the tabernacle, then they stopped and rested also, as is suggested in the following verse Exodus 40:37, see Numbers 9:17 thus the saints are to be followers of God as dear children, and to follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes or directs, and walk after the Spirit, the dictates and directions thereof; so the wheels in Ezekiel's vision went and stood, as did the living creatures, and the spirit in them, Ezekiel 1:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 40:36. When the cloud was taken up — The subject of these three last verses has been very largely explained in the notes on Exodus 13:21, to which, as well as to the general remarks on that chapter, the reader is requested immediately to refer. Exodus 13:21; Exodus 13:21.