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Numbers 9:19

in Numbers 9

Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journeyed not.

KJV

And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.

This verse in Numbers 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent

on Numbers 9:17-19

The cloud governs the staying as well as the going, and verse 19 gives the long halts of many days. The text calls that waiting keeping the charge of the Lord, so a camp sitting still under orders is obeying.

This site's exposition

lingered over the tabernacle for many days

Matthew Henry supposes that men were posted day and night within sight of the cloud to warn the camp when it stirred. He reads keeping the charge in that sense. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown note how hard the long halts were for a people eager to reach Canaan.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days,....

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וּבְהַאֲרִ֧יךְand when made long

    uvehaarikhH748 →

  • הֶֽעָנָ֛ןthe cloud

    heananH6051 →87 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ןthe tabernacle

    hamishkanH4908 →139 times

  • יָמִ֣יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • רַבִּ֑יםmany

    rabimH7227 →454 times

  • וְשָׁמְר֧וּand they kept

    veshameruH8104 →468 times

  • בְנֵי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֛לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מִשְׁמֶ֥רֶת[the] duty of

    mishmeretH4931 →78 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְלֹ֥אand not

    velo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יִסָּֽעוּ׃they set out

    yisauH5265 →146 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

    Zechariah 3:7

    “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I…

    it leads to

    • Matthew 19:28

      Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve…

    • 2 Timothy 4:1–2

      I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom:

    • Ezekiel 44:15–16

      But the Levitical priests, who are descended from Zadok and who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to approach Me to minister before Me. They will stand…

    • Genesis 26:5

      because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

    • 1 Timothy 6:13–14

      I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:

  • Through

    Numbers 3:8

    They shall take care of all the furnishings of the Tent of Meeting and fulfill obligations for the Israelites by attending to the service of the tabernacle.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 26:20–28

      Now their fellow Levites were in charge of the treasuries of the house of God and the treasuries of the dedicated things.

    • Ezra 8:24–30

      Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,

    • Numbers 10:21

      Then the Kohathites set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; 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.