Numbers 9 Study Notes
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the descendants of Israel,
and at the word of the Lord
they camped; all the days that it dwelt,
the cloud upon the tabernacle,
they camped.
This “Song of the Journey” set the stage for the actual departure from Mount Sinai in 10:11-36. The same sequence of marching and camping recurs in chap. 33. The NT also depicts God’s presence in the imagery of the cloud, as in the transfiguration of Jesus (Mk 9:7; Lk 9:34) and at his ascension (Ac 1:9).
9:19-22 The periodic movement of God’s presence from one campsite to the next varied from a day to several months—perhaps a year or more at Kadesh-barnea after the people refused to enter the promised land (13:25-14:38).