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Deuteronomy 31:15

Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cloud;   Death;   God;   Minister, Christian;   Tabernacle;   Thompson Chain Reference - Cloud;   Fire;   Manifestations, Special Divine;   Mysteries-Revelations;   Pillar of Cloud;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Forgiveness;   Testimony;   Theophany;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hilkiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joshua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Joshua;   Pillar of Cloud and Fire;   Tabernacle;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Cloud;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Criticism (the Graf-Wellhausen Hypothesis);   Moses;   Pillar;   Tabernacle;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Hafṭarah;   Joshua, Book of;   Providence;   Sidra;   Song of Moses;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.
Hebrew Names Version
The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
King James Version
And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of the cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.
English Standard Version
And the Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud. And the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance of the tent.
New Century Version
The Lord appeared at the Meeting Tent in a cloud; the cloud stood over the entrance of the Tent.
New English Translation
The Lord appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the door of the tent.
Amplified Bible
Then the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood beside the doorway of the tent.
New American Standard Bible
And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the entrance of the tent.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lorde appeared in the Tabernacle, in the pillar of a cloude: and the pillar of the cloude stoode ouer the doore of the Tabernacle.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the doorway of the tent.
Contemporary English Version
and the Lord appeared in a thick cloud right over the entrance to the tent.
Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai appeared in the tent in a column of cloud; the column of cloud stood above the entrance to the tent.
Darby Translation
And Jehovah appeared at the tent in the pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord appeared at the Tent in a tall cloud. The tall cloud stood over the entrance of the Tent.
George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
Good News Translation
and the Lord appeared to them there in a pillar of cloud that stood by the door of the Tent.
Literal Translation
And Jehovah appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood at the door of the tabernacle.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE appeared in the Tabernacle in a cloudy pyler and the same cloudy pyler stode in the dore of the Tabernacle.
American Standard Version
And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Bible in Basic English
And the Lord was seen in the Tent in a pillar of cloud resting by the door of the Tent.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde appeared in the tabernacle, euen in the piller of the cloude: and the piller of the cloude stoode ouer the doore of the tabernacle.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
King James Version (1611)
And the Lord appeared in the Tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloude stood ouer the doore of the Tabernacle.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord descended in a cloud, and stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony; and the pillar of the cloud stood by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony.
English Revised Version
And the LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood over the entrance to the tent.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the Lord apperide there in a pilere of cloude, that stood in the entryng of the tabernacle.
Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah is seen in the tent, in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud standeth at the opening of the tent.
Update Bible Version
And Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud; and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
New King James Version
Now the LORD appeared at the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood above the door of the tabernacle.
New Living Translation
And the Lord appeared to them in a pillar of cloud that stood at the entrance to the sacred tent.
New Life Bible
The Lord showed Himself in a pillar of cloud which stayed at the door of the tent.
New Revised Standard
and the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud; the pillar of cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh appeared in the tent, in a pillar of cloud, - and the pillar of cloud stood, at the entrance of the tent.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord appeared there in the pillar of a cloud, which stood in the entry of the tabernacle.
Revised Standard Version
And the LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud; and the pillar of cloud stood by the door of the tent.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD appeared in the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the pillar of cloud stood at the doorway of the tent.

Contextual Overview

14 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting. 15 Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent. 16 Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us? 18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods. 19 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel. 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant. 21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 33:9, Exodus 33:10, Exodus 40:38, Psalms 99:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 10:4 - Without me

Cross-References

Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."
Genesis 31:7
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
Genesis 31:11
The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
Genesis 31:15
Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
Genesis 31:20
Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.
Genesis 31:27
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
Genesis 31:30
Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years have I been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brothers the Jews, that were sold to the nations; and would you even sell your brothers, and should they be sold to us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of cloud,.... As he was wont to do, see Exodus 33:9; in which cloud there was a lustre, a brightness, a glory visible, which showed that he was there:

and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle; it seems to have appeared first in the tabernacle, and then it came out of it, and stood over the door of it, near to which Moses and Joshua were: the Targum of Jonathan adds,

"Moses and Joshua stood without;''

though the former clause, according to Noldius b, should be "over the tabernacle", or above where the cloud was wont to be.

b Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 164. No. 737.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The transaction recorded in these verses may be regarded as the solemn inauguration of Joshua to the office to which he had some time before Numbers 27:22 been called, and his recognition in it by God, which were manifested by his being summoned into the tabernacle with Moses while the Lord appeared in the pillar of cloud (compare Numbers 11:25; Numbers 12:5).

Deuteronomy 31:16

The future apostasy of the people is announced in the presence of Joshua that the latter might be fully aware of the danger and strive in his day to avert it. This he faithfully did (compare Joshua 24:31); but we find him in his own last address to Israel repeating Joshua 23:15-16 the self-same prediction and warning.

Deuteronomy 31:19

A witness for me against them - i. e., an attestation from their own mouths at once of God’s benefits, their own duties, and their deserts when they should fall away. Being in verse it would be the more easily learned and kept in memory. The use of songs for such didactic purposes was not unknown to the legislators of antiquity. Compare also the advice of Paul, “teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs” Colossians 3:16.

Deuteronomy 31:23

He gave - i. e., the Lord gave.


 
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