He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud: They kept his testimonies, And the statute that he gave them.
His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.
He spoke to them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies, the statute that he gave them.
He spake unto them in the pillar of cloud: they kept his testimonies, and the statute that he gave them.
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.
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.
99:7 Spake - To some of them: to Moses and Aaron, Exod 19:24 33:9 - 11 1Sam 7:9, and c.