Psalms 77:20
You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
BSB
ASV
Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
KJV
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
And your footsteps shall not be known: you led out your people like sheep. The good shepherd led out his people like sheep. By the hand of Moses and Aaron. This he did according to the letter: for the rest, daily he does it in us. By the hand of Moses, that is, in the law (and we know that the law is spiritual): in the spiritual law. And of Aaron: that is, in the priesthood. In your spiritual law, and in your spiritual priesthood, you led out your people.
Moses was their governor, Aaron their high priest; they were guides, overseers, and rulers to Israel, and by them God led them. The right and happy administration of the two great ordinances of magistracy and ministry is, though not so great a miracle, yet as great a mercy to any people as the pillar of cloud and fire was to Israel in the wilderness.
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. What a transition from tempest to peace, from wrath to love. Quietly as a flock Israel was guided on, by human agency which veiled the excessive glory of the divine presence. The smiter of Egypt was the shepherd of Israel. He drove his foes before him, but went before his people. Heaven and earth fought on his side against the sons of Ham, but they were equally subservient to the interests of the sons of Jacob.
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Exodus 13:21And 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…
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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.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea.
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…
He spoke to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept His decrees and the statutes He gave them.
He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.
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Psalms 80:1Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
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And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its lamp.
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
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Exodus 14:19And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,
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In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days…