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Deuteronomy 1:33

in Deuteronomy 1

who 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

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.

This verse in Deuteronomy 1

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This 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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 9:12

    You 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.

  • Through

    Psalms 78:14

    He 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.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 20:6

    On 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…

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.
Moses Viewing the Promised Land, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846. Public domain.

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.