Numbers 10:34

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²⁹Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses' father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, "We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel." ³⁰"I will not go," Hobab replied. "Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people." ³¹"Please do not leave us," Moses said, "since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes. ³²If you come with us, we will share with you whatever good things the LORD gives us." ³³So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them. ³⁴And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day when they set out from the camp.³⁵Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, "Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You." ³⁶And when it came to rest, he would say: "Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel."

Bible Verse Review
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Exodus 13:21, Exodus 13:22, Nehemiah 9:12, Nehemiah 9:19, Psalms 105:39

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:17 - when the cloud Numbers 14:14 - thy cloud

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the cloud of the Lord [was] upon them by day,.... Not only upon the tabernacle, and upon the ark particularly, but it spread itself in journeying over the whole body of the people, and therefore said to be a covering to them from the heat of the sun, Psalms 105:39; as well as it was a guide unto them, and a token of the divine Presence with them, see Isaiah 4:5;

when they went out of the camp; or out of the place of their encampment, when they removed from Sinai; and appears from, hence that it was in the daytime.