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Numbers 9:22 KJV
Numbers · chapter 9 · verse 22
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.Numbers 9:22 · King James Version
Numbers 9:22 in context
20And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the LORD they journeyed.
21And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
22Or 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.
23At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tabernaclemishkâna residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the graveH4908 →
- remainingshâkanto reside or permanently stayH7931 →
- journeyednâçaʻproperly, to pull up, especially the tent-pinsH5265 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- tarriedʼârakto be longH748 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
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We have here the history of the cloud; not a natural history: who knows the balancings of the clouds? but a divine history of a cloud that was appointed to be the visible sign and symbol of God's presence with Israel. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-23