Numbers 9:16

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This was always the case: the cloud would cover it by day, and at night it would appear as fire.

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  • Neh 9:12 : 12 By day, You led them with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light for the path they should follow.
  • Neh 9:19 : 19 You, in Your great mercy, did not abandon them in the wilderness. During the day, the pillar of cloud did not depart to guide them on their way, nor did the pillar of fire by night to give them light for the path they should take.
  • Ps 78:14 : 14 By day He led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
  • Ps 105:39 : 39 He spread a cloud as a covering and fire to give light at night.
  • Isa 4:5-6 : 5 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night; over everything glorious will be a canopy. 6 It will be a shelter to provide shade in the daytime from the heat, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.
  • 1 Cor 10:1 : 1 Brothers, I do not want you to be unaware that all our ancestors were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.
  • 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
  • Rev 21:3 : 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, 'Behold, the dwelling place of God is with humanity. He will dwell with them, and they will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.'
  • Exod 13:21-22 : 21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. 22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.
  • Exod 40:38 : 38 For the cloud of the Lord was over the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel during all their journeys.
  • Num 9:18-22 : 18 At the command of the LORD, the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD, they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained camped. 19 Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the people of Israel kept the LORD’s command and did not set out. 20 Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days. In that case, they camped at the LORD's command and then set out at the LORD's command. 21 Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud lifted, they set out. 22 Whether it remained for two days, a month, or longer, as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, the people of Israel remained camped and did not set out. But when it lifted, they set out.
  • Deut 1:33 : 33 who went before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp, by night in the fire to show you the way you should go, and by day in the cloud.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 9:15
    90%

    15 On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, which is the tent of the testimony. In the evening, it appeared above the tabernacle as something like fire until morning.

  • Exod 40:34-38
    5 verses
    84%

    34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.

    35 Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.

    36 Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys.

    37 But if the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was lifted.

    38 For the cloud of the Lord was over the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel during all their journeys.

  • Num 9:17-23
    7 verses
    83%

    17 Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the people of Israel would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the people of Israel would camp.

    18 At the command of the LORD, the people of Israel set out, and at the command of the LORD, they camped. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they remained camped.

    19 Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the people of Israel kept the LORD’s command and did not set out.

    20 Sometimes the cloud remained over the tabernacle for only a few days. In that case, they camped at the LORD's command and then set out at the LORD's command.

    21 Sometimes the cloud remained only from evening until morning, and when the cloud lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, when the cloud lifted, they set out.

    22 Whether it remained for two days, a month, or longer, as long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, the people of Israel remained camped and did not set out. But when it lifted, they set out.

    23 At the command of the LORD, they camped, and at the command of the LORD, they set out. They kept the LORD's charge according to the command of the LORD given through Moses.

  • Exod 13:21-22
    2 verses
    79%

    21 By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

    22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

  • Ps 78:14
    79%

    14 By day He led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

  • Neh 9:12
    78%

    12 By day, You led them with a pillar of cloud and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light for the path they should follow.

  • Ps 105:39
    77%

    39 He spread a cloud as a covering and fire to give light at night.

  • Num 10:34
    77%

    34 By day, the cloud of the LORD was over them as they set out from the camp.

  • Deut 1:33
    75%

    33 who went before you on the way to scout out a place for you to camp, by night in the fire to show you the way you should go, and by day in the cloud.

  • Exod 14:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19 The angel of God, who had been going ahead of Israel's camp, withdrew and moved behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them.

    20 It came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. There was a cloud and darkness, yet it lit up the night, and neither side approached the other all night long.

  • Exod 24:15-18
    4 verses
    74%

    15 Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

    16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day, the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.

    17 The appearance of the LORD's glory was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop in the sight of the Israelites.

    18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

  • Neh 9:19
    73%

    19 You, in Your great mercy, did not abandon them in the wilderness. During the day, the pillar of cloud did not depart to guide them on their way, nor did the pillar of fire by night to give them light for the path they should take.

  • Deut 31:15
    73%

    15 Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.

  • Exod 33:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9 As Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the entrance of the tent, and the LORD would speak with Moses.

    10 When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, they would rise and worship, each at the entrance of their own tent.

  • Exod 16:13
    71%

    13 That evening, quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning, there was a layer of dew around the camp.

  • Num 14:14
    71%

    14 They will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are among these people, that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.

  • Num 10:11
    71%

    11 In the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was lifted from over the Tabernacle of the Testimony.

  • Exod 16:10
    71%

    10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole assembly of the Israelites, they turned toward the wilderness, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud.

  • 1 Kgs 8:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 When the priests withdrew from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the LORD.

    11 The priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.

  • Num 11:9
    70%

    9 When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

  • Isa 4:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night; over everything glorious will be a canopy.

    6 It will be a shelter to provide shade in the daytime from the heat, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.

  • Luke 9:34
    69%

    34 While he was speaking, a cloud appeared and enveloped them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud.

  • Lev 24:3
    68%

    3 Outside the curtain of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall set the lamps in order to burn continually before the LORD, from evening until morning. This is an everlasting statute for your generations.

  • Exod 40:19
    68%

    19 He spread the tent over the Tabernacle and placed the covering of the tent on top, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 14:24
    68%

    24 During the last watch of the night, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian army from the pillar of fire and cloud and threw it into confusion.

  • Lev 6:13
    68%

    13 This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must bring to the LORD on the day of his anointing: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half in the morning and half in the evening.

  • Heb 9:2
    68%

    2 For a tabernacle was prepared, the first room containing the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the bread, which is called the Holy Place.

  • Exod 26:30
    67%

    30 You shall set up the tabernacle according to the plan you were shown on the mountain.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    67%

    12 He made darkness his covering around him, dense clouds of water and thick clouds of the skies.