Deuteronomy 31:15 BSB

Deuteronomy 31:15

Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

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ASV

And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.

KJV

And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This is the only time in all this book that we read of the glory of God appearing, whereas we often read of it in the three foregoing books, which perhaps signifies that in the latter days, under the evangelical law, such visible appearances as these of the divine glory are not to be expected, but we must take heed to the more sure word of prophecy.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֵּרָ֧א	vai.ye.Ra'	and he appeared	H7200 →
יְהוָ֛ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
בָּאֹ֖הֶל	ba.'O.hel	at the tent	H168 →
בְּעַמּ֣וּד	be.'a.Mud	in a pillar of	H5982 →
עָנָ֑ן	'a.Nan	cloud	H6051 →
וַיַּעֲמֹ֛ד	vai.ya.'a.Mod	and it stood	H5975 →
עַמּ֥וּד	'a.Mud	[the] pillar of	H5982 →
הֶעָנָ֖ן	he.'a.Nan	<the> cloud	H6051 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
פֶּ֥תַח	Pe.tach	[the] entrance of	H6607 →
הָאֹֽהֶל׃ ס	ha.'O.hel	the tent	H168 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 40:38
For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
leads to
- Psalms 78:14
  He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
- Exodus 13:21
  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…
- Numbers 9:15
  On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.
- Isaiah 4:5–6
  Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there…
- Psalms 105:39
  He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
Through
Psalms 99:7
He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
leads to
- Exodus 33:9
  As Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and remain at the entrance, and the LORD would speak with Moses.
- Numbers 12:5
  and the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,
- Deuteronomy 4:5
  See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Deuteronomy

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Deuteronomy