Deuteronomy 1:33
in Deuteronomy 1who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
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ASV
who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
KJV
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 1
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
you did not trust the LORD your God
on Deuteronomy 1:32-33
The verdict on the whole episode is one charge: "you did not trust the LORD your God". Hebrews 3:19 gives the same account: "it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter."
This site's exposition
in the fire by night and in the cloud by day
The guidance was daily, a place to camp and the road to take. Numbers 10:33 has the ark going ahead of the camp to seek out a resting place.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
12 ); but here he owns that it was God that so carried them, and perhaps this is alluded to ( Acts xiii. 18 ), where he is said to bear them, or to suffer their manners. He charges them with the sin which they were guilty of upon this occasion.
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Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
ye came . . . and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land--The proposal to despatch spies emanated from the people through unbelief; but Moses, believing them sincere, gave his cordial assent to this measure, and God on being consulted permitted them to follow the suggestion (see on Nu 13:1).
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The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הַהֹלֵ֨ךְ | haholekh | who went | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| לִפְנֵיכֶ֜ם | lifneikhem | <to> before you | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ | baderekh | on the journey | H1870 → | 707 times |
| לָת֥וּר | latur | to seek out | H8446 → | |
| לָכֶ֛ם | lakhem | for you | ||
| מָק֖וֹם | makom | a place | H4725 → | 401 times |
| לַֽחֲנֹֽתְכֶ֑ם | lachanotekhem | to camp you | H2583 → | |
| בָּאֵ֣שׁ׀ | baesh | in the fire | H784 → | 378 times |
| לַ֗יְלָה | laylah | night | H3915 → | 233 times |
| לַרְאֹֽתְכֶם֙ | larotekhem | to show you | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| בַּדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ | baderekh | <in> the way | H1870 → | 707 times |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | ʾasher | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| תֵּֽלְכוּ־ | telekhu- | you will go | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| בָ֔הּ | vah | on it | ||
| וּבֶעָנָ֖ן | uveanan | and in the cloud | H6051 → | 87 times |
| יוֹמָֽם׃ | yomam | by day | H3119 → |
הַהֹלֵ֨ךְwho went
haholekhH1980 →1546 times
לִפְנֵיכֶ֜ם<to> before you
lifneikhemH6440 →2123 times
בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְon the journey
baderekhH1870 →707 times
לָת֥וּרto seek out
laturH8446 →
לָכֶ֛םfor you
lakhem
מָק֖וֹםa place
makomH4725 →401 times
לַֽחֲנֹֽתְכֶ֑םto camp you
lachanotekhemH2583 →
בָּאֵ֣שׁ׀in the fire
baeshH784 →378 times
לַ֗יְלָהnight
laylahH3915 →233 times
לַרְאֹֽתְכֶם֙to show you
larotekhemH7200 →1300 times
בַּדֶּ֙רֶךְ֙<in> the way
baderekhH1870 →707 times
אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich
ʾasherH834 →5497 times
תֵּֽלְכוּ־you will go
telekhu-H1980 →1546 times
בָ֔הּon it
vah
וּבֶעָנָ֖ןand in the cloud
uveananH6051 →87 times
יוֹמָֽם׃by day
yomamH3119 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nehemiah 9:12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
it leads to
- Exodus 13:21–22
And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Nehemiah 9:19
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 13:21–22
Through
Psalms 78:14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
it leads to
- Psalms 105:39
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
- Exodus 14:24
At morning watch, however, the LORD looked down on the army of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, and He threw their camp into confusion.
- Psalms 105:39
Through
Ezekiel 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 32:22
You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
- Ezekiel 20:15
Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory…
- Zechariah 7:14
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they…
- Jeremiah 32:22
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
