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Numbers 12:5

in Numbers 12

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,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Jehovah came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.

KJV

And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.

This verse in Numbers 12

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Judges of old sat in the gate of the city to try causes, and so on this occasion the shechinah in the cloud of glory stood at the door of the tabernacle, and Aaron and Miriam, as delinquents, were called to the bar.

This site's exposition

the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses

on Numbers 12:4-5

Suddenly is the word Adam Clarke fastens on, since no interval is left for the complaint to spread or for the three to prepare an account of it. All three are summoned to the door of the tent and the pillar comes down and stands there, which Matthew Henry compares to a judge taking his seat in the gate of a city where causes were tried. Moses is called out with the other two and is never asked to speak.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood the door of the tabernacle--without gaining admission, as was the usual privilege of Aaron, though it was denied to all other men and women. This public exclusion was designed to be a token of the divine displeasure.

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The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיֵּ֤רֶדand he came down

    vaiyeredH3381381 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • בְּעַמּ֣וּדin a pillar of

    beamudH5982111 times

  • עָנָ֔ןcloud

    ʾananH605187 times

  • וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֖דand he stood

    vaiyaamodH5975521 times

  • פֶּ֣תַח[the] entrance of

    petachH6607164 times

  • הָאֹ֑הֶלthe tent

    haohelH168345 times

  • וַיִּקְרָא֙and he summoned

    vaiyikra'H7121733 times

  • אַהֲרֹ֣ןAaron

    ʾaharonH175347 times

  • וּמִרְיָ֔םand Miriam

    umiryamH481315 times

  • וַיֵּצְא֖וּand they went out

    vaiyetzeuH33181067 times

  • שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃both of them

    sheneihemH8147768 times

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

    Numbers 11:25

    Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and He took some of the Spirit that was on Moses and placed that Spirit on the seventy elders. As the Spirit…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 11:17

      And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joel 2:28–29

      And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

  • Through

    Psalms 99:7

    He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.

    it 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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • 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.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 78:14

      He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.

    • 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.

    • 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…

  • Through

    Exodus 34:5

    And the LORD descended in a cloud, stood with him there, and proclaimed His name, the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 33:19

      “I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will…

    • Luke 9:34–35

      While Peter was speaking, a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

Where this verse is studied

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About Numbers

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.