Numbers 9:22
Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
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Gill's Exposition
At the commandment of the Lord they rested in their tents,.... Though ever so disagreeable:
and at the commandment of the Lord they journeyed; though the circumstances might be such, that they could…
Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
Barnes' Notes
A year - literally, “days,” idiomatically a year Lev 25:29, an expression equivalent to “a full period,” though not necessarily the period of a year.
We have here the history of the cloud; not a natural history: who knows the balancings of the clouds? but a divine history of a cloud that was appointed to be the visible sign and symbol of God's…
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