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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Exodus 40:38

y day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight, before the eyes, of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. Thus did the presence of the covenant God accompany them in all their journeyings, and the Tabernacle served to hold before the congregation the object of its calling and the certain fulfillment of the promises to the patriarchs.

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See also Exodus 40:38 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 40:38. _FOR THE CLOUD OF THE LORD WAS UPON THE TABERNACLE BY_ _DAY_] This daily and nightly appearance was at once both a merciful providence, and a demonstrative proof of the Divinity o...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    7. THE TABERNACLE SET UP, THE FINISHED WORK AND THE GLORY CHAPTER 40 _ 1. Jehovah gives the directions (Exodus 40:1)_ 2. Moses' obedience (Exodus 40:16) 3. The tabernacle set up (Exodus 40:17) 4

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XL. P S. THE ERECTION OF THE TENT. After a further summary of instructions mostly given before (Exodus 40:1), and involving the very latest developments (_cf._ the anointing of the assistant priests i...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ON IT: i.e. in the cloud. HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Exodus 16:31....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and there was fire therein_, &c. i.e. in the cloud. Cf. Numbers 9:15-16 (P). The book thus closes with the fulfilment of the promise given in Exodus 29:43; Exodus 29:45 (see on...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The cloud (see on Exodus 13:21-22) now takes up its abode on the Tent of Meeting (cf. Numbers 9:15 P), and the glory (see on Exodus 16:10) of Jehovah fills the DWELLING (_vv._34 f.). Ever afterwards,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The tenses are throughout frequentative ( USED TO GO ONWARD, USED NOT TO JOURNEY, USED TO BE), describing what was the case habitually during the journeyings in the wilderness. Cf. Numbers 9:16-23; Nu...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 40 And Je-ho-vah spake unto Mo-ses, saying, (2) On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting. (3) And thou shalt put ther...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FOR THE CLOUD OF THE LORD WAS UPON THE TABERNACLE BY DAY, AND FIRE WAS ON IT BY NIGHT, IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, THROUGHOUT ALL THEIR_ The cloud of the Lord ... While it had hitherto...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TABERNACLE ERECTED 1-16. Moses is commanded to uprear the Tabernacle and consecrate it, together with its furniture, and the priests by anointing them....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 40 MOSES PUTS GOD’S SPECIAL TENT INTO ITS PLACE AND THE *ISRAELITES...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (36-38) The cloud was henceforth, in a peculiar way, attached to the Tabernacle. As a cloud it rested upon it by day; as a pillar of fire by night. Only in one case was it removed, viz., when it was t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּי֩ עֲנַ֨ן יְהוָ֤ה עַֽל ־הַ מִּשְׁכָּן֙ יֹו

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE TABERNACLE SET UP AND DEDICATED Exodus 40:17 At the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice all was finished. Moses had placed the table on the right and the candlestick on the left of the...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Very full details are given concerning the preparation of the holy garments of the priests, all of which were made strictly according to the pattern. We then come to the definite statement, "Thus was...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For (h) the cloud of the LORD [was] upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys. (h) Thus the presence of God prese...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS Reader! before we take our leave of this precious book of Exodus, pause once more, and remark with me in what a multitude of instances Moses wrote of Christ. Blessed book of God I would s...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Numbers 9:15. Precious tokens these of the divine presence, and of the divine favour. Isaiah 4:5. But how much more precious, since the Lord Jesus came and tabernacled among his people, in the likenes...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    38._For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle. _Moses more distinctly explains what he had said generally respecting the cloud, viz., that by night a fiery column appeared, because the cloud wou...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 35 THROUGH 40. Besides the separation of Israel from the inhabitants of the land wherein they were to dwell, which is found in chapter 34, there is in chapter...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE CLOUD OF THE LORD WAS UPON THE TABERNACLE BY DAY,.... Or over it g, it covered it, when it abode upon it, and rested; and stood on high over it when it moved and the people journeyed: AND FIR...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Tabernacle is commanded to be reared, 9 and anointed. 13 Aaron and his sonnes to be sanctified. 16 Moses performeth all things accordingly. 34 A cloude couereth the Tabernacle. 1 AND the LO...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SIXTH SECTION The Erection of the Tabernacle and its Dedication as the Place of the Revelation of the Glory of Jehovah. (Analogies: Abraham’s Grove at Mamre; Jacob’s Bethel; Solomon’s Temple; Zerubba...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TABERNACLE ERECTED AND ARRANGED (vs.1-33) About one year had elapsed after the Passover in Egypt. Now the Lord instructs Moses to set up the tabernacle on the first day of the first month. The fi...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    34-38 The cloud covered the tabernacle even in the clearest day; it was not a cloud which the sun scatters. This cloud was a token of God's presence to be seen day and night, by all Israel, that they...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The same pillar which in the day-time was like a cloud, in the night-time had the appearance of fire. See EXODUS 13:21....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    These Chapter s contain a recapitulation of the various parts of the tabernacle and its furniture; and inasmuch as, I have already given what I believe to be the import of the more prominent parts, it...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 40:38 cloud H6051 LORD H3068 tabernacle H4908 day H3119 was H784 night H3915 sight H5869 house H1004 Israel...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YAHWEH COMMISSIONS THE DWELLINGPLACE (EXODUS 40:34). All the work having been completed and the Sanctuary set up Yahweh comes and sets His seal on it. We may analyse this last passage as follows: a T...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Tabernacle set up. God's glory manifested. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: God will dwell with those who prepare Him a habitation. Where God has a throne and an altar in the hea...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    REFLECTIONS. _On the first day of the first month_ of Abib, the tabernacle was reared. How time steals away! One year is gone; and what an eventful year to Israel, but now crowned with glory and with...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Set up the Tabernacle._ THE PRIMARY AND UNIVERSAL OBLIGATION TO THE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH; THE PROPER MEANS TO ITS RIGHT PERFORMANCE, WITH THEIR EVIDENCES AND FRUITS I. What is implied in the injuncti...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 40:34 The repetition in these verses emphasizes that the Lord is pres­ent with all his GLORY in the midst of his people. They can know that he is their God who has brought them o...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 40:34. The glory of the Lord.] This was a sensuous manifestation by which the presence of Jehovah in the tabernacle was made known to the people of Israel, but this manifestati...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE DESCENT OF THE GLORY OF GOD ON THE COMPLETED WORK. The work was finished the fist incense burnt (Exodus 40:27)—the first sacrifice offered ...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And so the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shall thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. And thou shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    the cloud. Exodus 13:21 Numbers 9:15 fire Psalms 78:14 Psalms 105:39 Isaiah 4

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    SEEING CHRIST IN THE TABERNACLE Exodus 39:32; _Exodus 40:35_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A lesson in obedience. Perhaps, the outstanding thing relative to the erection of the Tabernacle, and the preparati...

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