Deuteronomy 1:33

33 {who goes}^[a] {before you}^[b] on your^[c] way, seeking a place for your encampment, in fire at night and in a cloud by day, to show you the way that {you should go}.^[d]

Deuteronomy 1:33 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 1:33

Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to
pitch your tents in
For when the cloud was taken up they journeyed, and when that rested, there they pitched their tents; and hereby they were directed to places the most convenient for water for them and their flocks, or for safety from those that might annoy them:

in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go;
which otherwise they could not have found in dark nights, in which they sometimes travelled, and in, a wilderness where there were no tracks, no beaten path, no common way:

and in a cloud by day;
to shelter them from the scorching sun, where there were no trees nor hedges to shade them, only rocky crags and hills.

Deuteronomy 1:33 In-Context

31 and [just as he did] in the wilderness when you saw that Yahweh your God carried you, just as someone carries his son, all [along] the way [that] you traveled until {you reached} this place.'

32 But through all of this you did not trust in Yahweh your God,

33 {who goes} {before you} on your way, seeking a place for your encampment, in fire at night and in a cloud by day, to show you the way that {you should go}.

34 "Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, {saying},

35 'No one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors,

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "[is] the one going"
• [b] Literally "before your faces"
• [c] Hebrew "the"
• [d] Literally "you should go in it"