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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Numbers 9 In this chapter the command for keeping the passover is repeated, and it was accordingly kept, Numbers 9:1; but some persons being defiled and disqualified for observing it, Moses inquires of the Lord, on their solicitation, what should be done in such a case, Numbers 9:6; when it was ordered to be kept by such, and those on journeys, on the fourteenth day of the second...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

So it was alway,.... Night and day, as long as the people of Israel were in the wilderness, see Exodus 13:21; the cloud covered it [by day]: the phrase, "by day", is not in the text, but is easily and necessarily supplied from Exodus 40:38; and as it is in the Targum of Jonathan, and in the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and which the following clause requires: and the...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This chapter is, I. Concerning the great ordinance of the passover; 1. Orders given for the observance of it, at the return of the year, ver. 1-5. 2. Provisos added in regard to such as should be ceremonially unclean, or otherwise disabled, at the time when the passover was to be kept, ver. 6-14. II. Concerning the great favour of the pillar of cloud, which was a guide to Israel through the...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony; and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning. So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night. This was the sign of the presence of God in the midst of that vast canvas city. I suppose that the...