תהלים 99:7

Hebrew Modern Translation

בעמוד ענן ידבר אליהם שמרו עדתיו וחק נתן למו׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
ענן ידבר אליהם שמרו עדתיו וחק נתן-למו

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
בְּעַמּ֣וּד עָ֭נָן יְדַבֵּ֣ר אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם שָׁמְר֥וּ עֵ֝דֹתָ֗יו וְחֹ֣ק נָֽתַן־לָֽמוֹ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
בְּעַמּוּד עָנָן יְדַבֵּר אֲלֵיהֶם שָׁמְרוּ עֵדֹתָיו וְחֹק נָֽתַן־לָֽמוֹ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the cloudy: Exodus 19:9, Exodus 33:9, Numbers 12:5

kept: Exodus 40:16, Numbers 16:15, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 33:9, 1 Samuel 12:3-5, Proverbs 28:9, Hebrews 3:2, 1 John 3:21, 1 John 3:22

Reciprocal: Exodus 13:21 - General Numbers 11:25 - came down Deuteronomy 31:15 - General Psalms 22:5 - cried Psalms 105:28 - rebelled

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar,.... In the pillar of the clouds of glory, as the Targum; in which the Lord went before the children of Israel in the wilderness, to lead them, and protect them from heat in the day, Exodus 13:21, that is, he spake in this to Moses and Aaron; for it ceased when they came to the land of Canaan; instances of which see in Exodus 19:9, some have thought that the Lord might speak to Samuel also out of a cloud, when he called upon him, and it thundered, since clouds and thunder go together,

1 Samuel 12:18, the cloudy pillar was a type of Christ; and it is by him the Lord has spoken all his mind and will, when he was clothed with a cloud, or became obscure in the form of a servant; and it is through him, the Mediator, that men have access to God, and answers of prayer from him:

they kept his testimonies; the law, and the precepts of it, which were testifications of the mind and will of God; these Moses, Aaron, and Samuel, kept, though not perfectly, yet sincerely, from a principle of love, and with a view to the glory of God:

and the ordinance that he gave them; the ordinance of the passover, with the several rituals of the ceremonial law, which was an ordinance of God until the Messiah came; and we, under the Gospel dispensation, ought to keep the ordinances of Christ in faith and love, as they have been delivered to us; and such only can expect to be heard and answered by the Lord; and this is the reason of the mention of these things; see

Psalms 66:18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar - He spake to the men of other times; to those who called upon his name. It cannot be meant literally that he spake to “Samuel” from the “cloudy pillar” - the pillar which guided the Israelites in the wilderness, unless that term be understood in the general sense as denoting the “Shechinah” - the visible symbol of the divine presence - the cloud that rested on the ark. The idea is, that God his people in ancient times from the cloud - the symbol of his presence; that he communed with them; that he heard their prayers; that he gave them his commandments; that he interposed in their behalf, and that it was not a vain thing that they worshipped him. All this was as true of Samuel - it is as true now of those who call upon God - as it was of Moses and Aaron.

They kept his testimonies ... - They obeyed his laws, and he thus heard and answered them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 99:7. He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar — That is, he directed all their operations, marchings, and encampments by this cloudy pillar. See Exodus 33:9.

They kept his testimonies — Do ye the same, and God will be your portion as he was theirs.